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FIRST  BIENNIAL  REPORTS 


OP  THE 


BOARD  OF  CONTROL 


OF 


NEW  HAMPSHIRE 


AND  OP  THE 


PURCHASING  AGENT 


FOE  THE 


BIENNIAL  PERIOD 
ENDING  AUGUST  31,  1914 


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MANCHESTER,   N.   H. 

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■        LETTERS  OF  TRANSMITTAL. 

Concord,  N.  H.,  Nov.  2,  1914. 
To  His  Excellency  the  Governor,  and  the  Honorable  Council: 
In  conformity  with  the  law  creating  the  Board  of  Control, 
we  have  the  honor  to  submit  herewith  our  first  biennial  re- 
port covering  the  period  from  June  1st,  1913,  to  August 
31st,  1914. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

SAMUEL  D.  FELKER, 
WILLIAM  J.  AHERN, 
GEORGE  W.  FOWLER, 

GEORGE  w.  McGregor, 

BENJAMIN  W.  COUCH. 


Concord,  N.  H.  Nov.  2,  1914. 
To  His  Excellency  the  Governor,  and  the  Honorable  Council: 
In  conformity  with  the  act  establishing  the  office  of  Pur- 
chasing Agent,  I  have  the  honor  to  submit  my  first  biennial 
report  covering  the  period  from  September  1,  1913,  to 
August  31,  1914. 

Respectfuly  submitted, 

GEORGE  W.  FOWLER. 


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CONTENTS. 

Eeport  of  Boaed  of  Conteol. 
Eeport  of  Puechasing  Agent. 

Eepobt  of  State  Hospital. 

Repoet  of  Industrial  School. 

Repoet  of  School  foe  Feeble  Minded. 

Report  of  State  Sanatorium. 


BOAED  OF  CONTROL. 

Samuel  D.  Felkee,  Eochester,  (ex  officio)  Governor  of  the 

State. 
William  J.  Aheen,  Concord,  (ex  officio)  Secretary  of  the 

State  Board  of  Charities  and  Corrections. 
George  W.  Fowlee^  Pembroke,  Secretary,  term  expires  July 

19,  1916. 
De.    Geoege  W.   McGeegoe,   Littleton,   term   expires   May 

29,  1917. 
Benjamin  W.  Couch,  Concord,  term  expires  August  4,  1915. 

Employees  of  the  Boaed. 

Chase  E.  Whitchee,  Architect. 

Chaeles  H.  Smith,  Inspector  of  Construction. 

Alfeed  L.   Guay,  Inspector  of  Construction. 


THE  PUECHASING  AGENT. 

George  W.  Fowlee,  Pembroke,  Purchasing  Agent, 
Term  Expires  July  19,  1916. 

Employees. 

NoEA  M.  HoDNETT,  Clerk  and  Stenographer. 
Nellie  L.  Gannon,  Bookkeeper. 


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REPORT  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  CONTROL 


COVEKING  THE  PERIOD  FROM  JUNE  1,  1913, 
TO  AUGUST  31,  1914. 

The  act  abolishing  the  Boards  of  Trustees  of  the  State 
Pospital,  the  State  Industrial  school,  the  School  for  Feeble 
Minded  Children  and  the  State  Sanatorium,  and  creating 
the  Board  of  Control,  went  into  effect  June  1,  1913,  as  to 
the  Board  of  Control,  and  on  September  1,  1913,  as  to  the 
Purchasing  Agent. 

The  terms  of  the  act  are  such  that  it  is  necessary  that  two 
separate  reports  should  be  made,  one  relating  to  the  Board 
of  Control,  and  the  other  relating  to  the  Purchasing  Agent. 

The  Boakd  of  Conteol. 

The  Board  organized  July  28,  1913,  by  electing  Mr.  Ahem 
Chairman,  and  Mr.  Fowler  Secretary. 

In  August  a  contract  for  a  year  was  made  with  Chase  R. 
Whitcher  of  Manchester,  N.  H.,  under  which  he  became  State 
Architect,  to  draw  plans  and  specifications,  submit  estimates, 
and  generally  supervise  institutional  construction. 

The  board  has  held  regular,  general  business  meetings  at 
its  office  in  the  State  House  on  Friday  of  each  week,  at  which 
times  the  superintendents  of  the  several  institutions  have 
appeared  and  presented  their  various  matters  to  the  board 
for  its  consideration. 

Such  additional  meetings  as  exigencies  have  required  have 
been  held  from  time  to  time,  both  at  the  board's  office  and 
at  the  various  institutions. 


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10        '"•'% ;  ^•^S^i^i'Ot  ^b:^  :i?oaed  of  control. 

One  member  of  the  board  has  made  an  inspection  of  each 
institution  each  month,  the  members  inspecting  the  institu- 
tions in  rotation  and  reporting  any  matters  found  to  require 
the  attention  of  the  board. 

The  system  of  having  the  superintendents  bring  to  the 
board  at  the  regular  meetings  anything  coming  to  their  at- 
tention, and  of  having  the  members  of  the  board  report  any- 
thing found  by  them  on  inspection  to  require  attention,  seems 
to  us  to  provide  a  double  check  against  failure  of  the  board 
to  know  of  things  which  ought  to  be  done  for  the  welfare 
of  the  inmates  or  of  the  institutions  themselves. 

Physical  Condition  of  the  Plants. 

LAND. 

Land  is  a  most  valuable  asset  for  an  institution  and  es- 
pecially so  for  those  which  have  inmates  who  are  benefited 
mentally  and  physically  by  regular  out-door  work.  In  this 
the  institutions  in  the  western  states  are  more  fortunate  than 
most  of  those  in  the  East. 

TABLE   OF   LANDS. 

Total. 
Institution.  Class.  Acreage.         Acreage. 

State  Hospital building"  site 115 

tillage 183 

pasturage 120  418 

School  for  Feeble  Mind- 
ed Children building  site 90 

tillage 88 

pasturage 100 

wood  land 100 

sprout  land 100  478 

Industrial  School building  site. 15 

tillage 95 

pasturage 62 

sprout  land 34  206 

Sanatorium building  site 10 

tillage 60 

pasturage    80 

wood  land   261  411 

1.513 


KEPORT  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  CONTROL.  11 


BUILDINGS. 

With  very  few  exceptions,  the  board  found  the  buildings  at 
the  various  institutions  to  be  in  good,  serviceable  condition. 

At  the  Hospital  there  is  a  relatively  large  per  cent  of  new 
construction,  considering  the  age  of  the  institution,  result- 
ing from  the  Act  of  1903,  under  which  the  pauper  insane 
were  taken  over  from  the  ten  county  almshouses.  This  rel- 
atively new  construction,  with  capacity,  is  as  follows:  The 
Walker  Building,  212 ;  Kent  Annex,  81 ;  South  Pavilion,  40 ; 
North  Pavilion,  100;  Twitchell  House,  30;  Peaslee  Annex, 
45;  Hospital  Building,  156,  and  the  cow  barn,  50  stalls. 
The  older  constructions,  Peaslee,  24;  Kimball  &  Chandler, 
87;  Bancroft,  44;  Fiske  &  Eumford,  111;  Kent,  63,  have 
been  put  into  a  very  good  state  of  repair. 

At  the  School  for  Feeble  Minded  Children,  all  of  the  con- 
struction except  the  farm  buildings  and  the  administration 
building  is  relatively  new  and  in  a  good  state  of  repair. 
These  consist  of  an  administration  building,  which  is  a  re- 
modeled farm  house;  the  Quinby  building,  a  well  designed 
and  substantially  constructed  refectory  of  sufficient  size  to 
take  care  of  reasonable  growth  of  the  institution;  a  school 
building  of  three  stories;  the  McLane,  90;  the  Floyd,  90; 
and  the  Felker,  100  (nearing  completion)  dormitories; 
laundry,  central  heating  plant,  isolation  hospital,  and  farm 
buildings  consisting  of  three  barns,  paint  shop,  carpenter 
shop,  small  farm  house,  and  a  detached  farm  house  used 
by  employees.  The  farm  buildings  are  in  need  of  paint,  and 
the  horse  bam  is  in  a  very  bad  state  of  repair. 

At  the  Industrial  School  the  girls'  dormitory,  Wilkins,  50 
capacity,  is  new  construction;  Riverview  Cottage  for  smaller 
boys,  28,  is  relatively  new  and  both  are  in  excellent  condi- 
tion; the  main  building  is  old  and  of  poor  design  for  the 
purpose  for  which  it  is  used.  We  shall  recommend  certain 
changes  for  this  building  in  regard  to  the  dining  room  and 
kitchen,  which  are  now  entirely  unsuitable.  The  two  main 
barns,  corn  barn,  and  other  farm  buildings  are  in  good  con- 


12  KEPORT  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  CONTROL. 

dition,  but  at  some  future  time  we  shall  recommend  a  more 
suitable  arrangement  for  the  piggery. 

At  the  Sanatorium  all  the  construction  is  relatively  new, 
consisting  of  a  two-story  brick  administration  building,  a 
three-story  wood  construction  refectory  with  infirmary  ac- 
commodations upstairs,  one-story  male  and  female  wards, 
heat,  light  and  power  plant  with  laundry  included  in  the 
construction,  hydro-electric  power  house,  and  cow  barn  under 
construction. 

INDUSTRIES. 

t 

Modern  scientific  management  of  public  charitable  and 
correctional  institutions  includes  the  fostering  of  industrial 
pursuits  for  the  inmates,  for  economic  reasons  to  some  ex- 
tent, but  more  especially  to  enhance  remedial  treatment  of 
the  cause  which  has  brought  the  inmate  to  the  institution. 

Two  general  systems  seem  to  be  in  practice  in  this  country ; 
the  centralized  institutional  plant  doing  one  particular  thing, 
and  small,  diversified  employments  to  which  various  inmates 
are  directed  in  accordance  with  what  the  officers  find  to  be 
the  inmates'  natural  inclination  or  adaptation.  The  board 
favors  the  latter,  and  it  is  the  more  difficult  to  work  out. 

The  industrial  idea  has  already  been  carried  into  effect 
quite  extensively,  as  compared  to  what  has  been  done  in  other 
eastern  states,  at  the  Hospital,  the  School  for  Feeble  Minded 
Children  and  the  Industrial  school,  but  improvements  along 
this  line  can  be  made,  the  exact  details  of  which  the  board 
has  not  yet  determined  upon.  Eeference  to  the  reports  of 
the  superintendents  to  the  board,  hereto  appended,  is  made 
for  information  as  to  what  has  already  been  accomplished 
in  this  line. 

FARMING. 

The  institution  farm,  wherever  the  inmates  can  work,  is 
a  most  valuable  asset,  and  should  be  extended  wherever  and 
whenever  a  reasonable  opportunity  presents  itself. 


REPORT  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  CONTROL.  13 

In  addition  to  its  value  for  remedial  treatment,  if  it  is 
under  the  charge  of  a  competent  farmer,  it  is  bound  to  be  an 
economic  success. 

The  piggery  pays  best,  and  these  institutions  are  nearer 
to  a  normal  line  of  efficiency  as  to  this  than  as  to  the  cattle 
and  the  hens. 

Not  nearly  enough  has  been  done  with  the  hennery  in 
those  institutions  which  have  inmates  who  can  give  the  hens 
and  the  henneries  that  constant  care  which  is  necessary  in 
order  to  make  poultry  raising  successful. 

"We  confess  the  delinquency  of  New  Hampshire  in  the 
matter  of  its  institution  herds  of  cattle. 

The  herds  are  not  bad,  but  they  are  not  as  good  as  they 
should  have  been  by  this  time.  No  systematic  attempt  has 
been  made  to  keep  the  complete  record  on  each  cow,  and  to 
follow  this  up  by  weeding  her  out  of  the  herd  as  soon  as  by 
reason  of  age  or  for  other  cause  she  has  dropped  below  par 
for  efficiency. 

We  entertain  in  our  minds  an  ambitious  program  for  the 
state:  We  would  gather  the  experts  and  decide  on  the  breed 
of  cattle  the  state  shall  raise,  would  carefully  purchase  a 
very  few  registered  heifers  and  a  bull  of  that  breed  for  each 
institution,  would  rotate  these  bulls  until  they  had  been  kept 
at  each  institution  for  a  proper  period  and  then  discard  and 
buy  new  from  outside  the  institution  herds.  We  would 
gradually  eliminate  the  grades  and  scrubs  until  in  course  of 
time  we  could  point  with  pride  to  the  standard  State  of  New 
Hampshire  cattle,  and  the  farmers  of  the  state  could  purchase 
with  impunity,  and  at  a  fair  and  reasonable  price,  bull  and 
heifer  calves,  out  of  herds  in  which  they  have  confidence, 
interest  and  pride.  We  say  this  is  ambitious,  but  not  ex- 
travagant and  would  be  well  worth  doing. 

Reference  to  the  reports  of  the  superintendents  will  show 
the  amount  and  kinds  of  products  which  have  been  raised 
on  the  farms  during  the  period. 


14  EEPORT  OF  THE  BOAED  OF  CONTROL. 

BEQUESTS. 

The  board  desires  to  gratefully  acknowledge  two  trust  fund 
legacies  to  the  State  Hospital  which  have  been  invested  and 
added  to  the  permanent  funds  of  the  institution.  One  leg- 
acy was  by  the  will  of  Charles  W.  Eawson,  late  of  Gilsum, 
deceased,  who  donated  the  sum  of  one  thousand  dollars,  and 
the  other  from  Susan  H.,  Luella  B.,  and  Elva  A.  Wheeler, 
sisters  of  Leverett  Wheeler,  a  deceased  patient. 

Construction. 

The  Legislature  of  1913  made  appropriations  for  new  con- 
struction and  extraordinary  repairs  as  follows: 

state  hospital. 

To  rewire  buildings $2,000.00 

To  build  an  addition  to  the  laundry      5,000.00 
For  repair  of  cow  bam  and  for  cows       5,000.00 

$12,000.00 


SCHOOL  FOR  FEEBLE  MINDED  CHILDREN. 

To  build  a  dormitory  for  epileptics  $40,000.00 

Chapel 20,000.00 

For    piping    sewerage,    water    and 

steam 10,000.00 

Land 3,000.00 

To  install  an  interior  telephone  sys- 
tem      1,000.00 

Enlarge  the   schoolhouse 2,550.00 

Insulate  steam  piping 2.250.00 

For  electric  wiring 400.00 

To  equip  the  carpenter  shop 800.00 

$80,000.00 


EEPORT  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  CONTROL.  16 

STATE  SANATORIUM. 

To  build  a  stock  barn $7,700.00 

An  infirmary 17,500.00 

Alter  the  dining  room  building  1,500.00 

Furnish  female  infirmary 2,800.00 

Install  electric  apparatus 3,520.00 

Build  a  coal  pocket 1,900.00 

Install  a  boiler 1,350.00 

Eepair  the  dam 2,000.00 

For  sewerage  and  hydrants 1,000.00 

Live  stock 1,500.00 

Kitchen  furnishings 600.00 

Repairs    1,600.00 

$42,970.00 

Total  $134,970.00 

The  State  Auditor's  report  contains  tables  showing  in  de- 
tail all  the  expenditures  made  under  the  foregoing  appro- 
priations, reference  to  which  is  here  made  for  all  such  details, 
but  the  following  will  show  the  construction  and  extraordi- 
nary repair  work  of  the  board  during  the  period. 

On  all  such  construction  and  repair  work  as  has  not  been 
contracted,  the  materials  and  supplies  therefor  have  been 
purchased  by  the  purchasing  agent. 

The  board  adopted  the  system  of  daily  inspection  by  com- 
petent inspectors,  representing  the  board  solely,  for  all  con- 
struction and  repair  work  done  under  these  appropriations, 
employing  for  this  purpose  Mr.  Charles  H.  Smith  of  Aliens- 
town  and  Mr.  Alfred  L.  Guay  of  Laconia. 

STATE  HOSPITAL. 

Rewiring.  This  has  been  completed,  the  work  having  been 
done  by  the  electrician  of  the  Hospital. 

Repairs  to  cow  ham.  An  examination  of  the  barn  itself, 
and  estimates  furnished  by  the  architect  disclosed  the  fact 


i^Q  REPORT  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  CONTROL. 

that  this  appropriation  ,could  npt  be  judiciously  expended  on 
the  barn  as  it  was.  Acting  under  advice  and  in  accordance 
with  its  judgment,  the  board  has  in  process  of  erection  a  one- 
story,  wood  construction  with  cement  bottom,  cow  bam  con- 
nected to  the  old  barn  by  trolley.  This  bam  will  contain 
fifty  stalls,  wash  and  milk  rooms,  and  be  distinctly  modern 
in  all  its  appointments.  .  This  work  is  being  done  by  the 
regular  Hospital  force,  to  which  .has  been  added  carpenters 
and  masons,  all  under  the  direction  of  the  architect;  It  will 
be  ready  for  occupancy  in  December. 

Addition  to  Laundry  Building.  It  was  determined  that 
this  could  be  done  to  better  advantage  by  the-  Hospital  force, 
with  added  carpenters  and  masons,  than  by  contract,  the 
work  to  commence  as  soon  as  the  cow  barn  is  finished,  so 
there  had  been  no  construction  under  this  appropriation  at 
the  end  of  the  period  covered  by  this  report. 


SCHOOL  FOR  FEEBLE  MINDED  CHILDREN. 

*  Dormitory  for  epileptics.  This  building  is  in  process  of 
tJOnstruction,  being  a  two-story  brick  dormitor}"  of  mill  con- 
struction, designed  along  the  general  lines  of  the  McLane 
and  Floyd  dormitories,  with  such  improvements  as  have  sug- 
gested themselves.  The  general  contract  was  awarded  to  Wal- 
lace Building  Company,  Laconia,  for  $31,075;  heating,  T. 
Raiche,  Manchester,  $2,800;  plumbing,  T.  Raiche,  Manches- 
ter, $2,075 ;  electric  wiring,  W.  D.  Sanborn,  Laconia,  $925. 

Chapel.  This  building  could  not  be  built  within  the  ap- 
propriation on  plans  accepted  by  the  board,  so  a  service- 
•^able  part  of  the  building  as  planned  is  being  constructed  and 
the  plans  preserved  fbr  use  at  su6h  time  in  the  future  when 
it  will  be  found  necessary  to  make  an  enlargement.  Prac- 
tically the  entire  building  is  devoted  to  a  combination  audi- 
torium and  gymnasium  and  is  built  of  brick.  It  has  been 
named  the  Charles  Sherman  Little  Building  in  honor  of  the 
first  superintendent  of  the  institution.  General  contract, 
'Hutchinson  Building  Company,  Concord,  $14,650;  heating. 


REPORT  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  CONTROL.  17 

T.  Raiche,  $1,200;  plumbing,  Orr  &  Rolfe,  Concord,  $726; 
electric  wiring,  Orr  &  Rolfe,  $552. 

Piping,  sewerage,  water  and  steam.  8team  pipe  insulation. 
These  appropriations  contemplated  relaying  the  old  pipe 
lines  as  well  as  supplying  the  new  buildings.  A  thorough 
study  of  the  heat,  water  and  sewer  line  situation  brought  the 
board  to  the  conclusion  that  radical  changes  should  be  made 
in  the  system  involving  relocation.  Accordingly  these  ap- 
propriations were  combined  and  the  steam  system  changed 
to  high  pressure,  a  main  artery  cement  conduit  constructed, 
with  laterals  running  to  various  buildings,  and  additional 
sewer  and  water  lines  laid,  the  sewer  line  being  a  ten-inch 
main  which  will  take  care  of  future  construction.  The  con- 
tracts for  this  work  were  awarded  as  follows:  Conduit  sub- 
way, Wallace  Building  Company,  $2,890;  conduit  lines,  T. 
Raiche,  $2,550 ;  pipe  lines,  T.  Raiche,  $3,775 ;  water  and  sewer 
lines,  John  H.  Stevens,  Manchester,  $1,274.43;  trenches, 
Hobbs  &  Cote,  Laconia,  for  water  trench,  $160,  and  $6.50  per 
cubic  yard  for  ledge,  for  sewer  trench  $3  per  rod,  and  $6.50 
per  cubic  yard  for  ledge.  Exposed  steam  piping  in  the  Quin- 
by  Building  and  dormitories  has  been  covered  at  a  cost  of 
$634,  the  work  being  done  by  John  H.  Stevens. 

To  install  an  interior  telephone  system.  The  board  de- 
cided not  to  attempt  to  do  anything  with  this  appropriation 
until  after  the  two  new  buildings  are  ready  to  be  occupied. 
For  land.  The  board  purchased  about  fifty  acres  of  good 
pasture  land  and  a  barn  of  Annie  M.  Huston  for  the  sum  of 
$1,500.  A  tract  of  one  hundred  acres  of  sprout  land  was 
purchased  from  Jacob  Sanborn  for  $600.  This  tract  has 
been  fenced  and  will  be  gradually  made  over  into  a  good 
pasture  by  the  use  of  inmate  labor.  Neither  of  these  tracts 
is  connected  with  the  other  institution  lands,  but  each  is  ac- 
cessibly located  in  the  vicinity. 

Enlargement  of  Schoolhouse.  The  third  floor  of  this 
building  constituted  the  gymnasium,  which  will  hereafter 
be  in  the  Little  building,  and  this  floor  has  been  made  over 
into  a  hallway  and  two  school  rooms,  the  interior  has  been 


18  REPORT  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  CONTROL. 

repainted,  and  necessary  heating  and  plumbing  made.  Gen- 
eral contract,  Wallace  Building  Company,  $1,570;  heating 
and  plumbing,  T.  Eaiche,  $145. 

Electric  wiring.  This  has  been  done  by  W.  D.  Sanborn  on 
a  contract  as  follows:  Superintendent's  residence,  $225; 
farm  house,  $50;  vegetable  cellar,  $35;  carpenter  shop,  $65; 
school  building,  $100;  Little  Building,  dimmer,  $25;  switch 
board,  $75 ;  fixtures,  $25. 

Equipment  of  carpenter  shop.  A  buzz  planer,  handsaw, 
power  grinder,  saw  bench  with  saws,  and  a  ten-horse  power 
motor  have  been  installed  at  an  expense,  together  with  shaft- 
ing, freight,  and  electrical  work,  of  $785.03. 

Mr.  Smith  has  been  inspector  of  the  construction  at  this 
institution, 

INDUSTRIAL  SCHOOL. 

The  upper  story  of  the  Wilkins  Building  had  been  left  un- 
finished and  was  practically  waste  space.  There  being  an 
unexpended  balance  of  the  building  appropriation  which  could 
be  used  for  the  purpose,  the  board  decided  to  finish  the  upper 
story  to  provide  accommodations  for  an  increase  in  the  num- 
ber of  inmates.  This  has  been  done  under  the  supervision  of 
the  architect.  General  contract,  Bunton  &  Bernard,  Man- 
chester, $4,550;  plumbing  and  steam  heating,  $830. 

STATE  SANATORIUM. 

Several  transfers  from  one  item  to  another  were  found  to 
be  necessary  and  were  made,  under  the  terms  of  the  act 
(Chap.  252,  1913)  which  provided  ''Said  sum  ($42,970)  to 
be  expended  under  the  supervision  of  the  governor  and  coun- 
cil (board  of  control),  who  may  make  any  changes  in  the 
direction  of  the  expenditures  above  itemized  as,  in  their 
best  judgment,  they  may  see  fit,''  and  under  the  advice  and 
direction  of  the  governor  and  council. 

StocTc  ham.  A  cement  bottom  and  wood  construction 
combination  horse  and  cow  barn,  with  silo,  is  being  built  to 


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contain  eight  horse  and  twenty  cow  stalls.  General  contract, 
Cummings  Construction  Company,  Ware,  Mass.,  $7,687; 
plumbing,  T.  Eaiche,  $200 ;  wiring,  A.  L.  Franks  &  Co.,  $240. 
It  will  cost  about  $1,000  to  connect  the  barn  with  the  water 
system  and  the  entire  expense  of  the  barn  item  has  been 
provided  for  by  a  transfer  of  $1,500  from  the  infirmary  item. 

Infirmary.  The  lowest  bid  on  any  plans  and  specifications 
for  a  building  which  the  board  believed  it  wise  or  economical 
to  build,  was  $25,282,  the  appropriation  being  $17,500.  After 
due  consideration,  the  board  voted  that  it  was  inexpedient 
to  attempt  any  construction  under  this  item.  The  isolated 
location  of  this  institution  makes  it  hard  for  contractors  to 
take  care  of  their  employees,  the  long  freight  haul  and  the 
transfer  from  the  railroad  of  about  two  and  a  half  miles  up 
a  very  steep  grade  and  the  conformation  of  the  land,  all  in- 
crease the  cost  of  construction  to  such  an  extent  that  the 
board  found  that,  as  to  most  of  the  items  in  the  appropria- 
tion, the  amounts  required  had  been  underestimated. 

Alterations  to  dining  room  building .  The  open  third 
story  has  been  finished  into  rooms  to  be  used  for  employees 
until  provision  is  made  for  them  elsewhere,  when  it  may  be 
used  as  an  addition  to  the  infirmary  accommodations.  Gen- 
eral contract,  Cummings  Construction  Company,  $2,468.67; 
heating,  T.  Eaiche,  $400;  plumbing,  T.  Eaiche,  $500;  wiring, 
A.  L.  Franks  &  Co.,  $235.  This  institution  was  found  to 
be  without  a  vegetable  cellar  and  without  any  suitable  accom- 
modations for  refrigeration,  so  that  supplies  had  to  be  re- 
ceived by  it  almost  daily,  no  safe  margin  of  perishable  sup- 
plies being  on  hand  at  any  time  to  guard  against  the 
constant  danger  of  interruption  of  freight  service  in  the 
winter  time,  a  situation  which  the  board  decided  could 
not  be  allowed  to  continue.  A  transfer  was  made  to  this 
item  of  the  appropriation  and  a  power  refrigerating  plant 
installed  in  an  addition  to  the  dining  room  building,  and  a 
vegetable  cellar  constructed  beneath.  Contract  for  the  addi- 
tion, Cummings  Construction  Company,  $527 ;  cork  insula- 
tion, New  England  Eefrigerating  Company,  Boston,  Mass., 


20  EEPOIIT  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  CONTEOL. 

$797;  refrigerating  machinery,  Bay  State  Construction  & 
Supply  Company,  Boston,  $1,222;  excavating  and  building 
vegetable  cellar,  Cummings  Construction  Company,  $1,000. 

Furnishings  for  female  infirmary.  As  stated  heretofore, 
the  infirmary  was  not  built,  so  nothing  was  expended  under 
this  appropriation. 

To  install  electric  apparatus.  This  item  was  included  in 
the  appropriation  for  the  purpose  of  installing  an  auxilliary 
electric  plant  in  the  power  house  to  supplement  the  hydro- 
electric plant  and  to  be  ready  for  service  in  case  of  failure  of 
the  hydro-electric  plant.  A  Ball  engine,  a  fifty  k.  w.  West- 
ern Electric  generator,  synchronizing  apparatus,  transform- 
ers, and  other  electrical  machinery,  have  been  installed.  Con- 
tract for  material  and  labor  was  let  to  A.  L.  Franks  &  Co., 
for  $3,035. 

Coal  pocket.  A  concrete  coal  pocket  of  one  hundred  twen- 
ty-five tons  capacity  has  been  constructed  with  direct  en- 
trance to  the  boiler  room  of  the  heating  plant,  and  so  lo- 
cated that  teams  drive  on  to  a  flat  top  and  dump  over  man- 
holes into  the  pocket.  The  contract  for  this  work  was  let 
to  the  Cummings  Construction  Company  for  the  sum  of 
$1,887. 

Boiler.  A  Dillon  boiler  of  one  hundred  fifty-horse  power 
was  purchased  on  a  contract  for  $898  f.o.b.  Glencliff,  and  a 
contract  made  with  T.  Raiche  for  $1,600  to  do  the  piping  and 
setting.  When  the  amount  of  this  item  of  the  appropriation 
was  determined,  it  was  not  understood  that  the  installation 
of  the  proper  type  of  boiler  would  necessitate  the  building  of 
a  brick  extension  to  the  boiler  house,  which  is  being  done  by 
Raiche  as  a  part  of  his  contract. 

The  work  under  this  item  is  in  process  and  the  boiler  will 
be  ready  to  go  into  commission  in  December. 

Repair  of  dam.  The  height  of  the  dam  and  of  the  spill- 
way has  been  increased  three  feet,  and  a  wing  a  hundred  feet 
in  length  with  a  cement  core  has  been  extended  from  the  dam. 
This  has  doubled  the  capacity  and  is  all  that  could  be  done 
within  the  appropriation,  but  more  yet  is  required  as  is  ex- 


REPORT  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  CONTROL.  21 

plained  under  the  head  of  recommendations.  Contract  for 
this  work  was  let  to  Cummings  Construction  Company  for 
$1,925. 

Sewerage  and  hydrants.  Several  sewer  lines  of  two  hun- 
dred feet  in  length  have  been  laid  from  the  central  basin  to 
land  below;  700  feet  of  four-inch  cast  iron  pipe  water  line 
have  been  laid  from  the  main  water  line  to  the  cow  barn  and 
one  hydrant  installed  near  the  bam.  On  account  of  the  un- 
certainty of  the  conditions  to  be  met  in  trenching  for  the 
water  line,  a  contract  was  made  with  Cummings  Construc- 
tion Company  to  do  this  work  at  actual  cost  plus  $75,  under 
the  inspection  of  Mr.  Guay.  It  is  estimated  that  the  expense 
will  be  about  $1,100.  The  other  work  under  this  item,  in- 
cluding the  erection  of  a  silo,  has  been  done  under  the  super- 
vision of  Mr.  Guay  and  laborers  employed  by  him. 

Live  stock.  There  is  more  live  stock  at  Glencliff  than  the 
productive  lands  will  supply  with  hay  and  pasturage ;  in  fact 
the  institution  is  obliged  to  purchase  a  part  of  its  hay,  so 
this  item  has  not  been  expended. 

Kitchen  furnishings.  Morandi-Proctor  Company  appara- 
tus has  been  purchased  consisting  of  a  range,  urn,  hot  table 
and  piping.  Contract,  A.  H.  Britton  &  Co.,  Concord, 
$547.21;  expended  for  kettles,  pans,  freight  and  apparatus, 
$52.83. 

Repairs.  Work  done  under  this  item  has  consisted  of  a 
large  amount  of  replumbing  in  the  male  ward,  repairs  to  the 
ice  house  and  many  minor  items  throughout  the  plant. 

All  the  work  under  the  different  items  of  this  appropriation 
has  been  done  under  the  inspection  of  Mr.  Guay. 

PLYMOUTH   NORMAL   SCHOOL. 

The  act  making  an  appropriation  for  the  construction  of 
a  dormitory  at  the  Pl3nnouth  Normal  School  provided  that 
the  work  should  be  done  under  the  direction  of  the  governor 
and  council,  who  accepted  plans  and  specifications,  and  to- 
gether with  the  trustees  of  the  institution,  made  the  contracts 
for  the  construction.     The  act  was  passed  subsequent  to  the 


22  REPORT  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  CONTROL. 

C 

Board  of  Control  Act,  which  provides  that  all  construction 
shall  be  under  the  direction  of  the  board.  Acting  under  a 
request  made  by  the  governor  and  council,  the  board  super- 
vised the  construction  of  this  building,  Mr.  Guay,  the  in- 
spector, being  used  on  this  work,  together  with  Mr.  King, 
of  the  school  staff. 

Recommendations. 

GENERAL. 

The  board  recommends  that  an  act  be  passed  under  which 
the  income  of  each  institution  shall  stand  appropriated  to 
its  use. 

At  the  last  session  of  the  legislature  an  act  was  passed  for 
the  present  period,  but  the  new  act  should  be  general  and 
not  limited  to  a  biennial  period. 

All  stat€  moneys  must  by  law  pass  into  the  state  treasury, 
and  unless  each  institution  shall  have  to  its  use  its  own  in- 
come and  earnings,  an  injustice  will  be  done,  because  the  cost 
of  supplies  for  the  industrial  departments  is  charged  to  the 
institution,  and  so  it  should  have  to  its  own  credit  the  pro- 
ceeds of  these  departments.  Also  the  institutions  which  have 
inmates  who  pay  the  whole  or  a  part  of  their  board  have  to 
pay  the  cost  of  maintenance  of  these  inmates,  and  should 
have  to  their  own  use  the  board  so  paid. 

We  also  recommend  the  enactment  of  a  law  under  which 
the  board  shall  have  authority  to  buy,  sell  or  exchange  insti- 
tutional lands  provided  each  exercise  of  authority  under  the 
act  shall  be  by  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  governor  and 
council.  This  act  should  also  contaain  authority  for  the 
board  to  institute  proceedings  for  the  condemnation  of  land 
for  institutional  purposes  by  and  with  the  consent  of  the 
governor  and  council,  the  taking  to  be  in  the  manner  pre- 
scribed for  the  taking  of  lands  in  the  laying  out  of  highways. 

Additional  lands  for  those  institutions  in  which  it  is  de- 
sirable that  certain  of  the  inmates  should  work,  will  be 
found  to  have  economic  as  well  as  remedial  value. 


KEPOET  OF  THE  BOAKD  OF  CONTliOL.  Zd 

The  matter  of  obtaining  suitable  lands  for  the  institutions 
is  highly  important  and  extremely  difficult.  A  special  ap- 
propriation for  land  for  a  specific  institution  immediately  en- 
hances the  land  values  in  the  specified  vicinity. 

We  believe  that  the  legislature  should  provide,  by  appro- 
priation, a  suitable  amount  for  the  purchase  of  land,  to  be 
expended  by  the  board  under  the  advice  and  direction  of  the 
governor  and  council,  or  by  the  governor  and  council  upon 
recommendation  of  the  board. 

We  believe  that  the  board  should  have  an  emergency  fund 
appropriation  of  reasonable  amount,  to  be  included  in  the 
budget  bills,  which  could  be  used,  when  necessary,  for  the 
benefit  of  any  of  the  institutions,  and  for  the  purpose  of  mak- 
ing economies  which  could  not  be  taken  advantage  of  with- 
out such  a  fund. 

APPKOPRIATIONS. 

The  board  has  asked  each  superintendent  to  include  in  his 
report  his  recommendations  as  to  the  things  which  need  to 
be  done  at  his  institution,  the  expense  of  which  would  neces- 
sitate a  special  appropriation,  and  to  give  to  the  board  his 
estimates  as  to  maintenance  requirements  for  the  next  bien- 
nial period. 

The  budget  item  for  maintenance  should  always  be  figured 
with  an  allowance  to  take  care  of  any  unanticipated  rise  in 
maintenance  costs  resulting  either  from  the  necessity  of  tak- 
ing in  more  inmates  than  expected  or  from  unexpected  in- 
crease in  the  cost  of  supplies. 

It  should  be  figured  so  that  there  will  be  a  reasonable  mar- 
gin to  cover  unforeseen  things  and  to  provide  for  minor  re- 
pairs to  be  done  from  time  to  time  as  the  necessity  for  them 
occurs. 

The  Hospital  item,  $225,000  (see  footnote  to  table  below), 
is  sufficient  for  these  things  and  is  not  increased  from  the 
prior  period. 

No  material  increase  in  population  is  to  be  anticipated  at 
the  Industrial  School  or  the  Sanatorium,  and  the  repair  items 


24  REPORT  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  CONTROL. 

at  these  two  institutions  are  of  such  a  nature  that  they  are 
recommended  for  special  appropriations,  so  that  maintenance 
is  not  recommended  to  be  changed  from  the  prior  period. 

The  maintenance  for  the  School  for  Feeble  Minded  Chil- 
dren for  the  year  1914-15  is  $46,800,  and  if  the  Felker  Build- 
ing is  in  operation  for  six  months  of  the  year,  there  is  grave 
doubt  if  this  will  be  sufficient.  We  recommend  that  the 
maintenance  for  this  institution  for  the  next  period  should 
be  $57,000,  which  ought  to  provide  for  the  usual  mainte- 
nance items  and  give  some  leeway  for  such  minor  repairs  as 
should  be  made  when  the  necessity  therefor  appears,  instead 
of  letting  such  repairs  go  unattended  to. 

If  an  act  providing  that  the  income  of  each  institution 
shall  stand  appropriated  to  its  use  should  fail  of  passage, 
these  maintenance  items  will  have  to  be  increased  as  indi- 
cated in  the  table  below. 

The  maintenance  required  for  the  Board  of  Control  is 
recommended  to  be  $3,000  to  cover  per  diem,  traveling  ex- 
penses and  any  other  legitimate  item  of  expense  which  might 
appear. 

The  amount  required  for  maintenance  of  the  purchasing 
agenf  s  department  to  cover  salary,  clerk  hire  and  expense 
of  keeping  the  books  and  records  is  estimated  at  $6,000. 

Eeference  to  the  table  below  will  show  that  these  main- 
tenance figures  are  for  each  of  the  two  years  of  the  biennial 
period. 

As  to  special  appropriations,  the  board  has  canvassed  the 
situation  at  all  the  institutions  and  determined  upon  those 
items  of  construction  and  repair  which  necessity  requires 
should  be  done  during  the  next  biennial  period,  and  has  re- 
served the  remaining  recommendations  of  the  superintend- 
ents for  future  consideration. 

The  necessities  at  the  Hospital  require  the  expenditure  of 
the  largest  amount.  In  the  superintendent's  report  will  be 
found  a  tabulation  showing  the  present  overcrowding  of  those 
wards  which  are  suitable  for  taking  care  of  violent  female 
patients.  Plans  and  specifications  for  a  violent  female  dor- 
mitory have  been  prepared  and  submitted  to  contractors  for 


EEPOET  OP  THE  BOARD  OF  CONTROL.  25 

estimates  as  to  cost.  The  plans  for  this  building  have  been 
SO  drawn  as  to  easily  provide  for  the  inevitable  extension 
thereof  in  the  future. 

This  addition  to  the  plant  will  necessitate  the  installation 
of  one  boiler.  The  board  has  decided,  under  the  advice  of 
the  architect,  that  an  extension  to  the  boiler  house  should 
be  made  of  sufficient  size  to  provide  space  for  a  battery  of 
five  boilers,  which  shall  face  the  battery  of  five  already  in- 
stalled, and  the  new  boiler  would  be  the  first  of  the  new 
battery. 

The  estimated  cost  of  the  building  and  furnishings  to- 
gether with  connections  with  the  central  heating  plant  and 
for  the  boiler  and  boiler  house  addition  is  $185,000,  and  we 
recommend  the  appropriation  of  that  amount  for  this  purpose. 

At  the  School  for  Feeble  Minded  Children  there  is  no 
suitable  place  to  house  the  employees  and  the  conditions 
there  in  regard  to  this  are  such  that  we  recommend  the 
erection  of  an  employees'  dormitory,  plans  and  specifica- 
tions for  which  have  been  accepted  and  submitted  to  con- 
tractors for  estimates. 

We  have  gone  carefully  into  the  matter  of  the  condition 
of  the  horse  barn  and  have  decided  that  it  would  be  inad- 
visable to  expend  the  amount  of  money  thereon  which  would 
be  necessary  in  order  to  put  it  into  suitable  condition. 

We  believe  that  it  would  be  an  economy  for  the  institution 
to  very  substantially  increase  its  hen  business. 

We  recommend  an  appropriation  of  $45,000  with  which 
to  build  an  employees'  dormitory,  to  furnish  the  same  and 
connect  it  with  the  central  heating  plant  by  a  conduit  which 
would  also  carry  the  sewer  and  water  lines,  to  build  a  horse 
barn  and  to  use  so  much  of  any  balance  of  said  sum  as  may 
be  required  to  construct  a  hennery. 

No  new  construction  is  absolutely  necessary  at  this  time 
at  the  Industrial  School,  but  the  conditions  in  the  main 
building,  as  to  the  kitchen  and  dining  room,  are  such  that 
they  should  not  be  allowed  to  continue.  We  have  had  es- 
timates made  of  the  cost  of  making  changes  which  would 
take  care  of  the  matter  for  a  considerable  length  of  time 
and  recommend  an  appropriation  of  $2,500  for  this  purpose. 


ZQ  REPORT  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  CONTROL. 

The  board's  examination  of  the  cost  of  maintenance  at 
the  Sanatorium  leads  to  the  belief  that  the  matter  should  be 
carefully  investigated  before  any  plans  are  definitely  de- 
cided upon  to  provide  for  an  extension  of  the  capacity  at  this 
institution.  There  are  two  things,  however,  which  we  think 
should  be  done  during  the  next  period.  A  retaining  wall 
and  an  overhead  approach  to  the  second  story  of  the  bam 
should  be  constructed  and  the  dam  should  be  faced  on  the 
inside  with  concrete,  the  pond  should  be  grubbed  out  and 
an  excavation  made  which  would  increase  the  storage  ca- 
pacity in  an  amount  sufficient  for  all  probable  future  growth 
of  the  institution  and  provide  ample  water  for  fire  purposes. 

The  following  is  a  tabulation  of  the  maintenance  and 
special  appropriations  which  we  recommend. 

APPROPRIATIONS  RECOMMENDED. 


Department 
and    Purpose. 

Board  of  Control 

Per  diem  and  expense 
Purchasing  Agent 

Salary  and  expense. . . 
State  Hospital 

Maintenance    

Violent    female    build- 
ing furnishing,  boiler 
house  addition  boiler 

Year 
Ending 
August 
31,  1916. 

$285,000.00 
185,000.00 

$59,000.00 

45,000.00 

$46,000.00 

2,500.00 

$35,000.00 
2,000.00 

$3,000.00 
6,000.00 

470,000.00 

104,000.00 

48,500.00 
37,000.00 

Year 
Ending 
August 
31,  1917. 

$285,000.00 

$3,000.00 
6,000.00 

285.000.00 

School  for  Feeble  Minded 
Children 

$59,000.00 

Employees'   dormitory, 
furnishing,          heat, 
sewer      and      water 
line ;      horse      barn ; 
hennery    

59,000.00 

Industrial  School 

Maintenance    

Improvements  to  kitch- 
en  and   dining-room, 
main  building 

$46,000.00 

46,000.00 

Sanatorium 

Maintenance    

Barn      approach      and 
dam 

35,000.00 

35,000.00 

$668,500.00 

$434,000.00 

N.  B.  The  maintenance  items  for  the  first  three  institutions  are  here 
given  without  reference  to  the  income  of  each  institution.  If  the  law  is 
changed  so  that  the  income  of  each  institution  shall  stand  appropriated  to 
its  use,  these  maintenance  items  should  be  reduced  as  follows : 

State    Hospital,    from $285,000  to  $225,000 

School  for  Feeble  Minded   Children,  from 59,000  to      57.000 

Industrial  School,  from 46.000  to      45.000 


report  of  the  board  of  control.  97 

Expense  of  Operating  the  Board. 

Two  departments,  Board  of  Control  and  Purchasing 
Agent,  were  created  in  one  act.  The  auditor  has  carried 
both  under  one  detail.  Nearly  all  the  incidental  expense 
is  properly  chargeable  to  the  Purchasing  Agent. 

The  following  statement  of  the  per  diem,  travel,  and  in- 
cidental expense  includes  items  to  the  amount  of  $1,143.54, 
expense  incurred  in  equipping  the  office  and  opening  a  full 
set  of  books. 

BOARD  OF  CONTROL  EXPENSE  FOR  THE  PERIOD  FROM 

June  1,  1913  to  August  31,  1914. 

PERSONAL  EXPENSE. 

Per  diem $1,968.00 

Transportation   142.54 

Subsistence 134.98 

Miscellaneous   10.13 

INCIDENTALS 

Clerks  (See  Auditor's  Eeport) 585.00 

Original  Office  Equipment 846.39 

A.   K.   Paul,  expert  accountant,  opening  set  of 

books   297.15 

Surety  Bonds 304.10 

Miscellaneous   552.30 

Total   $4,840.59 

Eespectfully  submitted, 

SAMUEL  D.  FELKER, 
WILLIAM  J.  AHERN, 
GEORGE  W.  FOWLER, 

GEORGE  w.  McGregor, 

BENJAMIN  W.  COUCH, 

Board  of  Control. 


PURCHASING  AGENT'S  REPORT. 


To  His  Excellency  the  Governor,  and  the  Honorable  Council: 
The  portion  of  the  Act  of  1913  requiring  the  purchase  of 
supplies  for  certain  state  institutions  and  departments  by  a 
purchasing  agent  took  effect  September  1,  1913.  This  re- 
port therefore  relates  to  the  fiscal  year  ending  August  31, 
1914,  only,  although  designated  by  the  act  a  biennial  report. 
In  addition  to  giving  a  summarized  account  of  the  pur- 
chases made  during  the  fiscal  year  and  certain  classified 
financial  statements,  the  act  provides  the  report  shall  contain 
"a  general  statement  of  the  work  of  the  department  and  the 
observation  of  the  agent  as  to  the  systems  in  force  in  the 
various  institutions,  and  his  recommendations  thereunto 
pertaining,  with  such  suggestions  as  to  legislation  as  may 
in  his  judgment  be  needed  for  the  more  complete  performance 
of  the  duties  of  his  office.'' 

IN  GENERAL. 

To  bring  the  purchasing  on  account  of  a  state  into  one 
department  was  pioneer  work  in  this  section  of  the  country. 
There  was  therefore  no  worked-out  system  as  a  guide  and 
no  opportunity  to  profit  by  the  experience  of  others.  Some 
more  remote  states  had  adopted  the  policy,  but  conditions 
were  so  different  that  it  was  conceded  little  aid  could  be 
obtained  from  them. 

Each  of  the  seven  state  institutions  and  the  more  than  a 
score  of  state  departments,  for  which  the  purchasing  of  the 
things  they  needed  was  put  upon  the  purchasing  agent, 
had  hitherto  purchased  independently.  The  advantage  of 
uniting  purchases  had  been  recognized  in  single  instances 

28 


REPOET  OF  THE  PURCHASING  AGENT.  29 

however.  Previous  to  the  passage  of  this  act,  provision  had 
been  made  so  that  book  paper  stock  and  envelopes  for  the 
use  of  the  several  departments  and  institutions  were  pur- 
chased in  quantity  through  the  Printing  Commission.  Three 
institutions  had  united  voluntarily  in  a  steam  coal  contract; 
a  different  group  had  joined  in  a  butter  contract  and  a  but- 
terine  contract,  and  two  were  supplied  with  storage  eggs 
under  one  contract.  Those  were  the  chief  exceptions  to  the 
independent  buying.  Such  practice  was  being  extended  each 
year. 

As  the  persons  who  did  the  purchasing  for  each  institu- 
tion- or  department  had  other  duties,  it  was  to  be  expected 
the  greater  number  of  wants  had  not  been  long  anticipated. 
To  make  formal  requisition  for  supplies  upon  one  central 
department  and  physically  apart  from  the  institution  itself, 
and  long  enough  in  advance  of  the  actual  need  to  give  ample 
time  for  purchase  to  the  best  advantage,  and  their  delivery, 
was  a  most  radical  change. 

Eecognizing  this,  it  was  regarded  as  impracticable  to  lay 
down  any  hard  and  fast  rules  in  putting  into  effect  the  new 
state  policy.  Everything  savoring  of  "red  tape"  was  avoided, 
further  than  an  attempt  to  faithfully  meet  the  requirements 
of  the  act.  The  determination  was  to  cooperate  with  and 
to  the  fullest  extent  possible  to  be  helpful  to  the  institutions 
and  departments  in  a  constant  endeavor  to  get  for  them  and 
the  state  the  fullest  value  for  the  money  expended  for  such 
of  their  maintenance  as  fell  to  this  department. 

An  idea  that  such  result  could  be  accomplished  by  furnish- 
ing articles  of  a  cheaper  quality  and  so  at  a  smaller  money 
outlay  has  never  been  entertained.  The  constant  effort  has 
been  to  so  assemble  requisitions  from  different  sources  and 
anticipated  needs,  and  by  stimulating  competition,  to  get  the 
grade  of  article  required  at  the  lowest  possible  cost. 

To  illustrate:  None  of  the  institutions  were  large  enough 
to  use  a  carload  of  pea  beans  in  a  year,  but  it  was  ascer- 
tained from  a  canvas  that  combined  institutions  consume 
about  such  total.  A  car  of  No.  1  New  York  hand-picked 
beans  was  purchased,  brought  to  Concord  and  distributed 


30  EEPORT  OF  THE  PURCHASING  AGENT. 

from  there.     Thus  all  were  supplied  at  as  low  a  cost  as  could 
be  obtained  for  any  quantity,  however  large,  at  such  date. 

Among  other  articles  purchased  in  similar  way  are  mo- 
lasses and  syrup,  vinegar  and  sugar.  On  articles  of  general 
institution  or  department  use  of  whatever  character,  but  of 
less  than  carload  quantity,  the  policy  has  been  to  so  arrange 
the  order  that  the  lowest  price  for  which  such  supplies  could 
be  purchased  in  quantity  could  be  obtained.  With  the  ex- 
ception of  such  supplies  as  to  which  no  competition  could  be 
secured,  what  is  known  as  retail  price  has  not  been  paid,  and 
as  to  such  exceptions,  the  state  has  made  the  purchase  at  as 
low  a  cost  as  could  have  been  made  by  even  a  much  larger 
consumer. 

The  result  was  possible  through  the  certainty  of  the  seller 
that  in  supplying  the  state,  he  was  sure  of  his  pay  in  full; 
that,  if  a  manufacturer  or  exclusive  agent,  there  was  a  trade 
advantage  in  numbering  the  state  among  its  customers,  and 
that  the  expense  of  soliciting  the  business  was  minimum  be- 
cause of  one  purchaser  for  all  the  institutions  and  depart- 
ments. 

At  the  outset,  those  charged  with  checking  up  supplies 
received  at  each  institution  were  notified,  that  in  no  instance 
would  a  purchase  be  made  of  provisions  of  any  sort  that  were 
not  in  first-class  order  and  in  every  way  wholesome;  that  if 
any  arrived  which  they  suspected  were  not  in  such  condi- 
tion, they  were  to  know  that  such  had  not  been  purchased; 
and  they  were  positively  instructed  either  to  return  them  to 
the  shipper  at  once  at  his  expense,  or  to  set  them  aside,  and 
notify  this  office  in  either  case.  I  believe  they  have  faith- 
fully followed  those  instructions. 

As  purchasing  agent,  I  have  not  construed  the  law  as 
putting  upon  me  the  duty  of  passing  upon  the  need  of  a 
requisition  as  made.  Whenever  from  information  at  hand 
as  to  the  cost  of  different  grades  or  makes  of  articles  for  which 
requisition  was  made,  it  was  believed  better  value  could  be 
obtained  than  from  following  the  specifications  of  the  requi- 
sition, such  information  has  been  given  the  party  making  the 
requisition.     The  purchase  when  made  was  in  accord  with 


REPORT  OF  THE  PURCHASING  AGENT.  31 

his  final  decision  as  to  what  should  be  secured.  As  to  the 
institutions  under  the  Board  of  Control,  this  practice  has 
been  varied  merely  to  conform  to  a  vote  of  the  board  that 
all  requisitions  for  other  than  the  ordinary  staple  supplies 
should  first  be  submitted  to  the  board  for  authorization. 

METHOD  OF   OPERATING. 

To  carry  into  the  fullest  effect  the  purposes  for  which  the 
department  was  created,  it  was  agreed  that  prompt  payment 
for  purchases  made  would  be  an  important  factor.  Business 
concerns  were  generally  profiting  by  the  cash  payment  and 
discount  policy,  and  with  abundant  cash  in  the  treasury,  it 
was  desirable  that  the  state  should  exercise  a  similar  advan- 
tage. The  constitutional  provision  that  no  money  shall  be 
issued  from  the  state  treasury  but  by  warrant  of  the  governor, 
by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  council,  and  the 
fact  that  the  governor  and  council  were  not  constantly  in  ses- 
sion, made  it  impracticable  to  make  prompt  payment  of  each 
invoice  through  the  state  treasurer.  To  consider  this  prob- 
lem and  the  matter  of  accounting  with  a  view  that  there  be 
no  more  duplication  of  clerical  work  than  could  be  avoided, 
a  conference  of  the  governor  and  council,  the  state  auditor, 
state  treasurer,  and  Board  of  Control  was  held,  to  which  an 
expert  accountant  was  summoned. 

On  August  29,  1913,  following  that  conference,  the  gov- 
ernor and  council  passed  the  following  resolution,  setting 
forth  the  method  of  operation : 

Resolved  hy  the   Governor  and  Council,  That  the  Method 
of  Doing  Business  hy  the  Board  of  Control  Be  as  Follows: 

1.  At  the  beginning  of  each  fiscal  year,  the  governor 
shall  draw  his  warrant  on  the  treasurer  for  an  advance  of  a 
sum  sufficient  to  provide  a  working  capital  for  the  purchasing 
agent,  which  sum  shall  be  deposited  to  the  credit  of  the  pur- 
chasing agent,  who  shall  use  the  same  in  payment  of  obliga- 
tions contracted  by  him  under  the  powers  and  duties  of  his 
office. 


32  KEPOET  OF  THE  PURCHASING  AGENT. 

2.  Upon  requisition  from  the  various  departments  and 
institutions,  the  purchasing  agent  shall  make  his  purchases, 
and  the  seller  shall  make  bills  therefor  in  triplicate,  and  de- 
liver the  same  to  the  purchasing  agent.  The  purchasing 
agent  shall  immediately  deliver  one  such  bill  to  the  head  of 
the  institution  or  department  consuming  such  articles  so 
purchased;  one  to  the  state  auditor,  and  shall  retain  one 
for  his  office.  The  auditor  shall  give  notice  to  the  purchas- 
ing agent  of  any  errors  discovered  by  him.  The  institution 
or  department  shall  report  to  the  purchasing  agent  the  de- 
livery of  the  articles  so  purchased,  and  as  to  whether  they 
comply  with  the  specifications  and  are  otherwise  satisfactory. 

After  receipt  of  this  information,  the  purchasing  agent 
shall  pay  the  bill  so  contracted  and  charge  the  amount  against 
the  consuming  department  or  institution. 

The  departments  and  institutions  shall  keep  records  of 
accounts  and  as  heretofore  submit  classified  schedules  of  the 
same  at  the  end  of  each  month  to  the  auditor.  At  the  begin- 
ning of  the  succeeding  months  the  governor  shall  draw  war- 
rants, based  upon  a  report  of  the  auditor  to  him,  in  sums 
equal  to  bills  so  paid,  and  the  sums  so  obtained  on  warrant 
shall  be  deposited  to  the  account  of  the  purchasing  agent  to 
reimburse  his  working  capital  account. 

WORKING  CAPITAL. 

The  working  capital  at  first  provided  was  $25,000.  Such 
sum  was  soon  increased  to  $45,000,  and  the  purchasing  agent 
"further  instructed  to  advance  the  managers  of  the  several 
institutions  the  following  sums  for  the  purpose  of  meeting 
valid  emergency  bills  as  they  arise  against  such  institutions 
respectively,  and  for  paying  employes,  such  as  cannot  be 
carried  upon  the  regular  payrolls:  State  Hospital,  $700; 
School  for  Feeble  Minded,  $200;  State  Sanatorium,  $200; 
State  Prison,  $100 ;  Industrial  School,  $100.'' 

It  was  stipulated  that  the  managers  should  account  to  the 
purchasing  agent  for  the  money  so  advanced.  They  were 
to  be  reimbursed  for  the  amount  expended,  whenever  such 


KEPOKT    OF    THE    PURCHASIXG   AGENT.  33 

funds  ran  low,  at  the  discretion  of  the  agent.  This  has  been 
done.  The  bond  of  the  agent  was  increased  because  of  such 
additional  responsibility.  Further,  the  agent  was  instructed 
to  furnish  from  sucli  working  capital  money  to  meet  the 
monthly  and  bi-weekly  payrolls  of  such  institutions  as  pre- 
sented, after  being  certified  by  the  superintendent  and 
the  auditor.  This  was  done  that  state  employes  might  not 
fail  to  receive  their  wages  on  the  day  they  became  due,  as 
was  not  always  feasible  through  warrant  upon  the  state 
treasurer.  Under  similar  instructions,  advances  have  been 
made  to  the  Forestry  and  the  Liquor  License  Departments 
for  the  prompt  payment  of  some  of  their  obligations,  and 
for  some  work  under  special  appropriations  at  the  Laconia 
and  Glencliff  institutions.  The  total  of  such  advances  dur- 
ing the  year  is  $144,873.14,  for  which  reimbursements  have 
been  made  the  purcliasing  agent,  through  the  treasurer's  of- 
fice, in  the  same  manner  as  payments  for  supplies  have  been 
reimbursed.  The  interest  received  upon  daily  balances  has 
been  $231.57,  which  has  been  paid  the  state  treasurer.  Dur- 
ing the  year  there  were  paid  for  supplies  $302,486.40.  By 
advice  of  the  auditor,  the  invoices  for  the  highway  depart- 
ment have  for  the  most  part  not  been  paid  by  the  purchasing 
agent,  although  all  contracts  and  purchases  have  been  made 
by  him.  The  exception  has  been  the  bills  upon  which  dis- 
count could  be  obtained  for  cash  payment.  The  reason  for 
making  that  department  an  exception  was  that  the  cost  was 
finally  shared  by  the  state  and  towns  in  varying  percentage. 
The  invoices  on  account  of  the  adjutant  general's  office  have 
also  been  paid  direct. 

The  number  of  checks  drawn  for  the  year  is  5,202 ;  of  these, 
5,031  were  for  supplies,  and  171  for  advances. 

WORK  OF  THE  DEPARTMENT. 

Previous  to  beginning  operations,  the  following  notice  was 
caused  to  be  published  in  newspapers  in  various  parts  of  the 
state : 


34         REPOKT  OF  THE  PUECHASING  AGENT. 

To  Manufacturers,  Jobbers,  Merchants  and  Other  Wholesale 

Dealers  : 

^'Notice  is  hereby  given  that  the  purchasing  agent  for  the 
State  of  New  Hampshire  invites  and  will  receive  proposals 
for  furnishing  fuel,  furnishings,  supplies,  materials  equip- 
ment or  other  things  in  use  in  the  several  institutions  and 
state  departments,  the  purchase  of  which  is  required  of  him 
by  law  after  September  1,  191o.  Lists  of  supplies  as  needed 
from  time  to  time  will  be  furnished  inquirers  on  receipt  of 
requests,  stating  the  line  in  which  interested. 

•'Contracts  will  be  awarded  the  lowest  bidders,  quality 
considered,  each  bidder  in  any  competition  being  given  an 
equal  opportunity  under  such  regulations  as  will  protect  the 
interests  of  the  state.  Other  conditions  being  equal.  New 
Hampshire  dealers  will  be  given  preference." 

A  card  index  of  names  and  addresses  thus  obtained  was 
made,  to  which  have  been  added  those  of  all  other  applicants 
however  received. 

Requisition  blanks  in  triplicate  were  furnished  all  depart- 
ments and  institutions  specified  in  the  law.  The  "original" 
was  for  the  purchasing  agent,  the  "duplicate"  for  the  insti- 
tution or  department,  and  the  "triplicate"  for  the  auditor. 
These  blanks  called  for  a  statement  of  the  article  needed, 
quantity  required,  when  needed,  quantity  on  hand,  annual 
consumption,  last  purchase,  dealer,  quantity  and  price. 

An  additional  blank  was  issued,  termed  "Emergency  Pur- 
chase" and  the  heads  of  each  institution  and  department  were 
made  the  agent  of  the  department  to  purchase  such  articles 
in  any  emergency  for  which  there  was  not  time  to  make  a 
requisition  upon  this  office,  the  report  of  a  transaction  thus 
made  to  be  rendered  at  once  upon  such  emergency  blank. 
Comparatively  few  of  the  latter  have  been  used.  In  an  en- 
deavor to  keep  in  the  closest  touch  with  the  work,  the  agent 
has  been  at  the  office  practically  every  business  day  of  the 
year  and  some  holidays.  The  office  hours  have  been  from 
8  A.  M.  to  6  p.  M.,  six  days  of  the  week. 

The  number  of  requisitions  for  the  year  has  been  large, 
particularly  from  the  institutions,  because  of  the  conditions 


KEPOET   OF  THE   PURCHASING  AGENT.  35 

and  practice  generally  prevailing  previous  to  the  change  to  a 
central  department.  A  few  weeks  after  the  department  be- 
gan operation,  a  conference  of  the  superintendents  and  the 
Board  of  Control  was  held.  The  possible  advantage  of  sim- 
ultaneous requisitions  with  a  longer  anticipation  of  needs 
was  pointed  out,  and  by  agreement  a  certain  day  of  each 
week  was  named  as  "requisition  day";  that  is,  such  requisi- 
tions as  were  certain  to  be  made  within  a  given  week  were 
to  be  made  out  and  timed  to  reach  this  office  on  Tuesdays. 
This  was  not  to  prohibit  a  requisition,  overlooked  when  such 
list  was  made  out,  from  coming  at  other  times.  It  was  then 
hoped  to  gradually  extend  the  time  between  requisition  days 
as  the  business  became  better  organized,  but  no  further  steps 
in  that  direction  have  been  taken.  Some  of  the  institutions 
have  been  able  to  comform  to  the  plan  most  fully;  others 
have  gone  farther  and  made  their  general  requisitions  cover 
practically  a  three-months  period. 

It  was  readily  to  be  seen  that  from  simultaneous  requisi- 
tions, articles  of  the  same  class  could  be  assembled  and  the 
agent  could  go  to  market  wdth  a  larger  order  in  each  than 
from  individual  requisitions,  get  the  price  advantage  of  the 
larger  quantity  besides  saving  the  time  for  other  work  that 
the  placing  of  several  orders  in  succession  would  require. 
It  will  be  noted  from  the  summary  which  follows  that  2,207 
requisitions  are  on  file  in  this  office  covering  the  first  year 
period.  They  contain  14,286  different  items.  These  totals 
do  not  take  into  account  requests  for  supplies  that  have  been 
given  orally,  in  jierson  or  by  telephone,  by  letter,  or  the 
standing  orders  under  annual  contract,  or  supplies  furnished 
in  anticipation  of  needs.  The  number  of  invoices  paid  is 
8,334.  By  request  of  the  managers  of  the  Soldiers'  Home 
and  of  the  State  Library,  requisitions  for  supplies  for  them 
have  been  treated  as  if  they  had  been  enumerated  in  the  Act. 

Requisition  forms  regularly  contain  articles  of  the  widest 
variety.  One  taken  at  random  for  one  of  the  smaller  insti- 
tutions has:  meats,  groceries,  dry  goods,  hardware,  shoes. 
clothing  and  steam  fittings,  with  a  total  of  eleven  item.i. 
That  is  not  an  extreme  sample. 


36  JrEPOltT   OV   THE    PUKCHASIXG   AGENT. 

From  the  outset,  a  distinction  has  been  made  between 
actual  buying  and  ordering.  Before  a  purchase  has  been 
made,  as  a  rule  (to  which  the  exceptions  have  been  few), 
prices  have  been  obtained  from  at  least  two  reputable  dealers, 
and  the  order  invariably  given  to  him  whose  olfer  was  lowest, 
quality  considered.  Where  requisitions  could  be  combined 
to  amount  to  a  considerable  quantity  of  a  class  of  goods,  or 
aggregating  a  considerable  total,  requests  for  written  pro- 
posals have  been  made  to  as  large  a  list  of  prospective  sellers 
as  was  at  hand.  iVs  to  such  regular  supplies  ai?  groceries 
and  dry  goods,  the  practice  has  been  to  place  subsequent  or- 
ders to  fill  small  requisitions  at  the  same  figure  with  those 
sellers  who  were  given  the  order  on  their  proposals,  provided 
there  had  been  meantime  no  change  in  the  general  market, 
until  a  new  order  could  be  assembled  large  enough  to  war- 
rant a  new  inquiry.  If  a  better  offer  had  come  in  the  in- 
terim, the  successful  previous  bidder  was  still  given  a  chance 
in  competition. 

Examination  of  the  invoices  on  file  will  show  that  all  pur- 
chases have  been  made  on  a  surprisingly  small  margin  for 
handling. 

Contract  purchases  have  been  made  for  supplying  the  needs 
for  a  year,  as  ordered :  For  institutions,  of  coal,  both  anthra- 
cite and  steam;  butter,  butterine,  tobacco,  eggs,  tea,  coffee, 
(except  for  officers),  baking  powder,  cream  of  tartar,  evap- 
orated milk,  lemon  and  vanilla  extracts;  for  institutions  and 
departments,  electric  lamps,  drinking  cups,  carbon  paper, 
typewriter  ribbons,  pens;  for  secretary  of  state,  automobile 
plates  and  chauffeurs'  badges ;  for  highway  department 
metal  culverts,  road  oil,  road  drags,  and  paints;  for  forestry 
department,  fire  fighting  implements. 

Supplies  in  car  lots  have  been  bought:  of  sugar,  potatoes, 
flour,  glucose,  soap,  boards,  brick,  Portland  cement,  pea  beans 
and  land  tile. 

Purchases  of  estimated  annual  consumption  quantity  have 
been  bought :  of  molasses,  syrup,  blankets,  seeds,  fertilizers, 
cheese,  school  supplies,  periodicals,  paper  for  official  reports, 
steamboat  license  plates,  self-sealiug  preserve  jars. 


KEPOKT   OF   THE   PURCHASING   AGENT.  3? 

Proposals  on  the  above  were  called  for  with  specifications 
and  the  awards  were  made  from  samples  submitted  with  the 
bids.  In  practically  every  case,  in  determining  the  award, 
the  agent  was  given  the  helpful  assistance  of  the  stewards  of 
the  Concord  institutions,  or  the  heads  of  the  department 
from  which  the  requisition  came. 

Scores  of  other  written  proposals  have  been  asked  for  and 
received  for  definite  requisitions,  such  as  groceries  of  all 
kinds,  including  canned  goods,  shoes,  rubbers  and  leggings, 
clothing  of  all  kinds,  furnishings,  dry  goods  of  extensive 
variety,  leather  and  shoe  findings,  beds  and  bedding,  carpets, 
rugs,  crockery,  furniture,  kitchen  furnishings,  windows,  elec- 
trical supplies,  cow  stable  equipment,  hardware,  laundry  and 
shop  machinery,  motors,  auto  trucks,  paints,  glass,  disinfect- 
ants, plumbing  supplies,  pipe  and  steam  fittings,  lumber, 
roofing,  wagons,  grain,  harnesses,  books,  medicines  and  hos- 
pital supplies,  stationery,  bookcases,  filing  cases,  ballot  boxes, 
badges,  engineer's  apparatus,  poultry,  developing  negatives, 
elevators,  farm  machinery,  fire  works,  etc. 

Next  to  fuel,  "the  item  of  meats  is  the  largest  in  the  list 
of  supplies  as  to  cost.  The  average  cost  has  been  about 
$500  a  week.  In  frequency  of  delivery  it  is  the  largest.  Its 
purchase  has  required  more  attention  than  any  other  class, 
and  I  am  satisfied  that  in  no  other  class  have  purchases  been 
made  at  a  better  advantage.  There  has  been  no  opportunity 
to  organize  a  plan  for  annual  contract  and  specifications  to 
deliver  as  ordered  at  a  fixed  price,  and  I  am  by  no  means 
certain  that  there  would  be  a  net  advantage  from  such 
method.  The  cold  storage  plant  at  the  State  Hospital  has 
made  it  possible  to  meet  the  needs  there  more  easily  than 
elsewhere.  A  similar  equipment  is  being  put  in  at  Glen- 
cliff  and  there  should  be  a  similar  equipment  at  the  prison 
and  School  for  Feeble  Minded  under  its  increased  popula- 
tion. During  the  early  part  of  the  year,  some  use  was  made 
of  the  hospital  facilities  for  cold  storage  in  advance  purchases 
for  other  institutions.  A  considerable  quantity  of  meat 
would    be    liouofht   from    commission   markets   at   less   than 


38  KEPORT   OF   THE   PURCHASING   AGEXT. 

market  price  in  advance  of  requisition,  and  be  eared  for  at 
the  hospital  storage  plant,  and  drawn  from  as  wanted  by  the 
hospital  steward.  Small  requisitions  from  other  institutions 
would  be  filled  therefrom  in  the  form  of  purchase,  being 
billed  at  the  quantity  cost.  In  this  way,  meats  to  the  amount 
of  about  $800  were  resold  to  other  institutions  from  the  hos- 
pital at  a  large  percentage  of  saving  to  the  state.  Criticism 
and  objection  was  made  to  this  by  the  auditor  as  complicat- 
ing the  bookkeeping  if  a  correct  exhibit  was  to  be  made,  since 
which,  there  has  been  less  of  it.  When  market  conditions 
have  forced  a  large  percentage  of  saving  in  so  doing,  there  has 
been  no  hesitancy  however,  in  purchasing  from  the  stock  of 
one  institution  to  meet  the  needs  of  another.  For  instance, 
in  such  way  ilour  at  car  price  has  been  bought  for  smaller 
institutions  from  the  Hospital,  School  for  Feeble  Minded,  and 
the  Industrial  School.  Practically  all  the  brooms  and 
brushes  purchased  by  this  department  to  fill  requisitions 
have  been  bought  from  the  hospital. 

To  secure  the  quantity  price  on  office  supplies  as  well  as 
afford  convenience  to  this  department,  a  stock  of  such  ar- 
ticles as  ink,  pens,  penholders,  pencils,  erasers,  paper  clips, 
and  fasteners,  paste,  blotters,  carbon  paper,  writing  papers 
for  several  uses,  etc.,  has  been  carried  in  this  office.  The 
invoices  have  been  made  to  the  purchasing  agent  and  paid  to 
obtain  the  cash  discount.  They  have  been  billed  out  as  called 
for  and  reimbursement  obtained  as  with  other  charges.  This 
practice  has  made  the  item  of  "office  supplies"  in  the  audi- 
tor's report  for  this  department  improperly  large,  but  the 
cost  saving  alone  has  been  in  many  cases  50  per  cent.  The 
charges  for  telephone  and  to  a  considerable  extent  for  express 
and  freight  might  properly  be  charged  to  the  department  in 
whose  direct  behalf  the  service  was  rendered,  but  the  trouble 
of  making  such  adjustment  was  regarded  excessive. 

If  it  should  be  deemed  wise  to  make  a  special  appropria- 
tion for  office  supplies  as  a  single  item,  the  articles  to  be 
furnished  as  needed  and  accounted  for  by  departments  in  a 
detail  by  itself,  much  clerical  work  throughout  would  be 
saved. 


REPORT   OF   THE   PURCHASING   AGENT.  39 

It  is  my  conviction  that  the  accounting  system  of  the  state 
should  be  revised.  Certain  it  is  that  for  the  business  it 
does,  if  the  state  were  to  establish  accounting  without  refer- 
ence to  the  past,  it  would  not  be  done  as  at  present.  For 
comparative  purposes,  there  should  be  some  consideration  to 
the  past,  but  1  believe  an  expert  accountant  could  readily 
work  out  a  new  system  that  would  effect  not  only  a  great 
saving  in  cost,  but  prove  more  satisfactory  in  results. 

Because  of  the  detailed  analysis  of  expenses  given  in  the 
annual  report  of  the  state  auditor,  little  of  that  nature  has 
been  deemed  desirable  in  this  report.  Such  tabulated  state- 
ments have  been  prepared  by  the  advice  of  the  auditor  as 
would  seem  to  make  a  complete  showing  in  connection  with 
other  reports  and  without  duplication. 

In  furnishing  supplies,  the  line  has  not  been  drawn  with 
reference  to  the  fiscal  year,  when  it  seemed  to  the  advantage 
of  the  state  to  act  otherwise.  At  the  School  for  Feeble 
Minded,  coal  enough  was  put  in  in  the  spring  of  1914  to 
meet  the  needs  for  at  least  four  months  of  the  next  fiscal 
year,  to  take  advantage  of  the  better  teaming  conditions, 
with  the  consequence  that  the  annual  maintenance  appropria- 
tion fell  a  little  short  of  present  needs.  At  the  State  Hos- 
pital, about  2,000  tons  of  steam  coal  more  than  usual  was 
put  in  during  the  summer  months  to  enable  the  freight 
truck  purchased  for  its  transfer  to  be  utilized  to  the  best  ad- 
vantage. The  constant  effort  has  been  to  purchase  those 
things  which  the  state  must  needs  buy  in  such  quantities  and 
at  such  times  as  would  require  the  least  outlay  of  money. 

The  variety  of  supplies  required  through  this  department 
has  been  extensive.  It  has  comprised  all  those  things  needed 
for  the  sustenance,  care  and  comfort  of  a  combined  inmate 
population  of  nearly  2,000;  a  portion  at  least  of  the  living 
expenses  of  more  than  350  officials  and  employees ;  the  things 
necessary  for  the  upkeep  of  the  state  buildings;  the  pur- 
chases required  for  the  operation  of  four  institution  farms; 
the  school  supplies  for  two  normal  institutions,  besides  the 
articles  used  in  25  main  state  departments.  In  view  of  the 
radical  departure  in  state  policy  comprised  in  establishing 


40 


HEPOKT   OF   THE   PUECHASING  AGENT. 


tliis  new  department,  the  separated  locations  of  those  depend- 
ent upon  it  and  such  a  variety  of  needs,  remarkable  pa- 
tience and  consideration  has  been  given  it,  for  which  grate- 
ful appreciation  is  hereby  acknowledged. 


INVENTORIES. 


The  following  gives  the  totals  of  the  inventories  furnished 
by  the  institutions  and  departments,  "of  all  supplies  and 
materials  on  hand  as  of  August  31.^'  They  do  not  include 
lands  and  buildings.  A  study  of  the  detailed  inventories 
warrants  the  inference  that  different  interpretations  have 
been  put  upon  the  law  in  that  some  have  allowed  for  de- 
preciation from  one  year  to  the  next,  while  others  have  con- 
tinued the  same  value  upon  the  same  articles  on  both  dates. 
They  are  given  as  filed. 

Departments.  1914.                        1913. 

Hospital $165,260.21              $146,300.39 

Industrial  School 26,440.16                 27,074.53 

State    Prison 14,991.40                  14,830.37 

School  for  Feeble  Minded 26,440.71                  25,734.71 

Sanatorium    9,234.97                    8,556.57 

Keene  Normal  School 6,844.89                    4,205.44 

Plymouth  Normal  School 16,497.82                  16,731.72 

Adjutant-General    1,001.97                    1,139.48 

De];artment   of  Agriculture....  726.81                       737.00 

Attorney -General    1,700.41                       686.00 

Auditor    1.424.98  

Bank    Commission '      2,035.09                   2,071.88 

Charities  and  Corrections 512.50                      346.83 

Board  of  Control 734.37  

Fish  and  Game  Department 343.45                       221.20 

Forestry  Department 9,249.74                    8,081.04 

Board  of  Health 6,343.23                    6,053.05 

Hig-hway  Department 2,804.16                   2,002.00 

State    Historian 369.70                      239.25 

Department  of  Pub.  Instruction  1,684.02                    1,512.95 

Insurance  Department 1,406.28                    1,309.85 

Bureau  of  Labor 404.84                       346.50 

Leoracy  Tax  Department 554.30                       602.00 

License    Commission '  1,456,90                    1,505.67 

Pharmacy  Commission 236.05  

Public   Service   Commission 3,122.16                   3,482.64 

Printing"   Commission 30.00                   1,255.93 

Secretary   of   State 2,322.15                    1,433.45 

State  House   31.00  

Tax  Commission 762.08                      939.98 

Treasury  Department 1,225.75                    1.204.13 


IlEPOKT   OF   THE   PURCHASING  AGENT. 


41 


REQUISITIONS. 

The  following  is  the  total  number  of  requisitions  filed  from 
the  institutions  and  departments  named  from  September  1,  1913, 
to  August  31,  1914,  inclusive. 


DEPARTMENTS. 


State  Hospital    ■ 

State  Prison j 

Industrial  School    i 

Sanatorium    ! 

Pljniouth  Normal   School j 

Keene  Normal  School 

School   for  Feeble  Minded 

Soldiers'  Home    

Highway   Department    I 

Forestry  Department    

Public    Service     

Secretary  of   State 

Board  of  Agriculture 

Board  of  Health 

Public  Instruction    

License  Commission    

Labor  Commission  > 

Fish  and  Game  Commission ! 

Legacy    Tax    Commission i 

Pharmacy    Commission    ' 

Insurance  Commission   

Printing  Commission    

Tax  Commission   

Charities    and   Corrections 

State  Historian    

Auditor    

Bank  Commission    

Adjutant-General    

Attorney-General    : 

Children's  Commission   i 

State   House    i 

Treasurer    ^ . . .  { 

Total I 


No.  of 

No.  of 

Requisitions. 

Items. 

474 

6,208 

254 

1,425 

94 

1,153 

146 

970 

53 

477 

62 

394 

91 

896 

34 

183 

300 

682 

148 

356 

84 

290 

80 

171 

45 

9T 

71 

194 

42 

100 

18 

57 

10 

21 

20 

43 

11 

17 

10 

204 

32 

65 

2 

2 

7 

10 

16 

84 

26 

37 

15 

23 

13 

30 

18 

27 

5 

19 

8 

24 

3 

12 

15 

15 

2,207 


14,286 


42  KEPORT   OF   THE  PURCHASING  AGENT. 

SUPPLIES. 

The  following  gives  the  total  amount  paid  for  supplies  for 
the  institutions  and  departments  named  from  September  1, 
1913,  to  August  31,  1914: 

State  Hospital $160,026.68 

Industrial  School 26,354.44 

State   Sanatorium 23,016.10 

School  for  Feeble  Minded 22,169.97 

State  Prison 19,997.78 

Plymouth  Normal  School 7,242.80 

Keene  Normal  School 4,858.27 

Soldiers'   Home 3,116.44 

Adjutant   General 2.10 

Department  of  Agriculture 691.79 

Attorney  General 28.72 

Auditor's  Department 65.69 

Bank  Commission 181.75 

Board  of  Charities  and  Corrections 499.02 

Children's  Commission 105.94 

Fish  and  Game  Department 3,261.30 

Forestry   Department 3,938.27 

State  Board  of  Health 1,476.76 

Highway  Department 7,037.14 

State  Historian 276.52 

Department  of  Public  Instruction 1,923.31 

Insurance  Department 845.23 

Bureau  of  Labor 124.85 

Legacy  Tax  Commission '24.47 

State  Library 374.81 

License  Commission 259.24 

Pharmacy  Commission 113.33 

Public  Service  Commission 1,540.26 

Public  Printing  Commission 129.26 

Board  of  Control 1,120.49 

Purchasing  Agent 334.86 

Secretary  of  State 7,297.75 


REPORT   OF   THE  PURCHASING  AGENT.  43 

State  House  $3,543.09 

Tax  Commission 167.30 

Treasury  Department 340.68 

Total   $302,486.40 

CASH  STATEMENT. 
Casli  Receipts. 

Working  capital    $45,000.00 

Reimbursements  from  State  Treasurer : 

October,  1913   20.573.27 

November,  1913    28,310.40 

December,  1913 44,041.02 

January,  1914 40,303.19 

Febrnary,    1914    28,499.57 

March,   1914    51,974.23 

April,   1914    39.711.38 

May,    1914    17,575.01 

June,  1914 41,735.64 

July,   1914    29,231.49 

August,  1914 97,070.83 

Interest 231.57 

Received  from  other  sources 435.31 


$484,692.91 

Gash  Disbursements. 

Paid  for  advances    $144,873.14 

Paid  for  supplies     302,486.40 

Interest  paid  to  State  Treasurer 231.57 

Cash  in  bank  August  31,  1914 37,101.80 

$484,692.91 

Respectfully  submitted, 

GEORGE  W.  FOWLER, 

Purchasing  Agent. 


BIENNIAL  REPORT 


OF  THE 


SUPERINTENDENT,  TREASURER 


AND 


FINANCIAL  AGENT 


or  THE 


N.  H.  STATE  HOSPITAL 

For  the  Period  Ending  August  31,   19 14 


MANCHESTER,   N.   H. 

Printed  by  John  B,  Clarke  Co. 

1915 


OFFICERS. 


C.  P.  Bancroft,  M.  D Superintendent  and  Treasurer 

C.  H.  DoLOFF,  M.  D Assistant  Superintendent 

A.  B.  HowAKD,  M.  D Assistant  Physician 

H.  E.  Herein,  M.  D Assistant  Physician 

E.  H.  EoBBiNS,  M.  D Assistant  Physician 

A.  J.  Nugent,  M.  D Assistant  Physician 

A.  F.  Tandy Steward 

Mrs.  Marcia  A.  Dresser , Housekeeper 

Bertha  M.  Cornwall Superintendent  Dining  Hall 

M.  P.  Ryan Supervisor 

William  M.  Moore Engineer 


REPORT  OF  THE  SUPERINTENDENT. 


To  the  Board  of  Control: 

The  superintendent  presents  to  the  Board  of  Control  the 
seventy-first  and  seventy-second  annual  reports  of  the  State 
Hospital  for  the  years  ending  August  31,  1913,  and  Au- 
gust 31,  1914. 

The  year  beginning  September  1,  1912  commenced  with 
957  patients — 500  men  and  457  women.  The  number  of 
patients  remaining  September  1,  1913,  was  1,058 — 525  men 
and  533  women.  The  daily  average  for  this  year  was  986.25 
— 505.36  men  and  480.89  w^omen.  The  death  rate  for  this 
period  was  10  per  cent.  The  recovery  rate  for  the  year 
based  on  the  number  of  different  persons  admitted  was  20.94 
per  cent. 

The  year  beginning  September  1,  1913,  commenced  with 
1,058  patients — 525  men  and  533  w^omen.  The  number 
of  patients  remaining  Sept.  1,  1914,  was  1,110 — 555  men 
and  555  women.  The  daily  average  for  this  year  was  1,085.7 
— 543.1  men  and  542.6  women — an  increase  of  practically 
130  patients  over  those  in  the  hospital  at  the  close  of  the 
previous  biennial  period  ending  August  31,  1912.  The 
death  rate  for  this  year  was  8.8  per  cent.  The  recovery 
rate  for  the  year  based  on  the  number  of  different  persons 
admitted  was  21.82  per  cent. 

The  Walker  Building  was  opened  for  patients  May  24, 
1913.  This  building  was  intended  for  patients  of  the  in- 
diistrial  class,  those  cases  that  are  quiet  and  can  be  em- 
ployed in  various  capacities  both  in  and  outside  the  wards. 
The  capacity  is  at  present  212,  but  when  completed  the 
Walker  Building  will  care  for  424  patients.  Men  are  at 
present  located  on  the  first  floor,  and  women  on  the  second 

3 


4  NEW   HAMPSHIRE   STATE   HOSPITAL. 

floor.  This  arrangement,  while  disadvantageous  in  some 
respects,  by  careful  management  of  entrances  and  exits,  has 
caused  little  inconvenience.  In  the  third  floor  of  the  wing 
all  the  male  night  watches  of  the  hospital  are  domiciled,  as 
well  as  the  married  employees  of  the  Walker  Building.  In 
the  third  floor  of  the  administration  portion  are  placed  all 
the  women  night  nurses.  Altogether  this  new  building  has 
housed  270  persons. 

The  Walker  Building  is  a  complete  unit  in  itself  and  has 
proved  easy  of  administration  and  economical  in  its  opera- 
tion. All  the  patients  have  some  practical  and  useful  oc- 
cupation. Some  work  in  the  kitchen  and  congregate  din- 
ing rooms,  others  perform  some  sort  of  housework;  the 
women  do  all  the  sewing  and  mending  of  the  hospital,  be- 
sides engaging  in  rug  making,  knitting  stockings,  basketry 
and  other  useful  and  diversional  employment.  Several  pa- 
tients have  been  encouraged  to  cultivate  small  plots  of 
ground  raising  flowers  and  garden  vegetables.  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Herrin  were  placed  in  charge  of  this  new  unit,  and  have 
administered  their  trust  most  faithfully. 

The  biennial  period  has  been  free  from  any  serious  epi- 
demic or  other  illness.  There  was  a  death  from  typhoid 
fever  in  October,  1912.  This  was  one  of  the  cases  that  ap- 
peared during  the  summer  of  1912,  since  which  time  there 
has  been  no  typhoid  in  the  hospital.  In  1913  there  were 
two  cases  of  diphtheria,  both  of  which  recovered.  During 
the"  last  year  there  has  been  an  epidemic  of  scarlet  fever,  in 
which  three  employees  and  two  patients  were  affected. 
There  were  no  fatalities.  In  the  case  of  all  these  infectious 
diseases  one  of  the  annex  wards  in  the  hospital  building  was 
vacated  and  permanently  shut  off  from  the  other  wards, 
making  a  most  efficient  isolation  hospital  for  the  care  of 
these  infectious  cases. 

Pellagra  has  appeared  in  the  hospital.  Between  1908  and 
the  present  time  there  have  occurred  eight  cases,  two  of 
which  are  living,  although  in  critical  condition.  This  dis- 
ease, which  apparently  made  its  first  appearance  in  Italy  and 
later  became  prevalent  in  the  southern  states  in  this  coun- 


NEW  HAMPSHIRE  STATE  ifOSPITAL.  5 

try,  has  been  slowly  making  its  advance  into  the  northern 
states.  Definite  scientific  information  concerning  its  causa- 
tion and  exact  pathology  is  lacking.  Various  theories  have 
been  advanced — diseased  maize  and  cereals,  poor  sanitary 
and  hygienic  conditions,  hook  worm — but  none  have  satis- 
factorily accounted  for  its  increasing  prevalence  and  ap- 
parently steady  advancement  in  northern  latitudes.  The 
cases  in  this  hospital,  with  the  exception  of  two  living  at 
the  present  time,  have  all  proved  fatal,  and  have  occurred 
in  widely  separated  portions  of  the  institution.  The  dis- 
ease has  apparently  occurred  as  a  terminal  feature  in  pro- 
found nervous  and  physical  exhaustion  among  dementing 
psychoses.  The  progress  after  the  appearance  of  positive 
diagnostic  symptoms  has  been  rapid.  Treatment  has  been 
of  no  avail.  The  following  table  shows  sex,  date  of  admis- 
sion and  death  of  all  the  cases  that  have  occurred  at  this 
hospital. 

Woman  admitted  February  14,  1908.    Died  September  4,  1911. 
Woman  admitted  June  29,  1910.    Died  July  24,  1913. 
Man  admitted  November  8,  1913.    Died  July  1,  1914. 
Woman  admitted  April  27,  1914.    Died  July  23,  1914. 
Man  admitted  May  20,  1914.    Died  August  19,  1914. 
Man  admitted  May  15,  1913.    Died  August  29,  1914. 
Woman  admitted  June  17,  1910.     Still  at  State  Hospital. 
Woman  admitted  May  31,  1913.    Still  at  State  Hospital. 

Much  has  been  accomplished  the  last  two  years  in  diver- 
sional  occupation.  In  the  men's  work  shop  nearly  all  the 
hospital  printing  has  been  done,  besides  the  manufacture  of 
brooms,  brushes,  slippers  and  men's  hose.  With  enlarged 
facilities  and  suitable  equipment  there  is  no  reason  why  the 
hospital  should  not  manufacture  all  its  hose,  men's  shoes, 
slippers  and  outing  shirts.  At  the  present  time  the  men's 
work  shop  has  supplied  its  own  brooms  and  brushes  and 
in  addition  has  provided  these  articles  for  many  other  in- 
stitutions. It  is  extremely  important  that  a  new  carpenter 
shop  should  be  erected  near  the  boiler  house,  and  the  pres- 
ent shop  fire-proofed  and  converted  into  an  industrial  shop 
for  various  diversional  occupations.  Not  only  would  such 
additional  construction  and  equipment  be  of  benefit  to  men 
patients,  but  would  prove  of  distinct  economic  value  to  the 


6 


NEW   HAMPSHIIiE   STATE   HOSPITAL. 


state.  Moreover,  the  present  carpenter  shop  and  adjacent 
wooden  building  is  a  fire  menace. 

During  the  last  two  years  the  exteriors  of  the  Bancroft 
Building,  Twitchell  House  and  Nurses'  Home  have  been 
painted  and  repaired  throughout.  The  lower  ward  in  the 
Bancroft  Building  has  been  repainted  and  an  entire  new 
birch  floor  laid.  New  plumbing  has  been  installed  in  wards 
5  and  8.  Extensive  repairs  have  been  made  in  the  head 
farmer's  house  and  the  lodge  at  the  main  entrance.  All  the 
old  and  unsafe  wiring  has  been  renewed  with  the  exception 
of  Peaslee  I,  which  will  soon  be  completed.  The  new  cow 
barn,  for  which  the  last  legislature  made  an  appropriation, 
will  be  completed  by  December  1.  The  verandas  of  the  hos- 
pital and  Walker  buildings  have  been  fly  screened,  as  well 
as  the  entire  Walker  Building.  As  p  Tesult  the  fly  nuisance 
has  been  perceptibly  improved  and  the  prevention  of  infec- 
tion greatly  enhanced. 

Additional  accommodations  are  imperatively  needed  at  the 
present  time  for  the  disturbed  women  patients.  Further 
crowding  of  the  wards  of  the  Kent  Building  is  not  only  un- 
sanitary, but  throws  out  of  balance  proper  classification  of 
all  the  patients.  The  following  statement  discloses  the  situa- 
tion as  it  exists  at  about  the  close  of  the  present  year : 


STATEMENT  OF  NUMBER  OF  PATIENTS  AT   STATE  HOSPITAL. 


Wards. 

Total  No. 

of 
Patients. 

Capacity. 

Excess 

of 
Capacity. 

Beds 
Available. 

Kent  Building 

Kent    Annex 

Piske  &  Rumford 

South    Pavilion 

Bancroft  Building 

75 
81 

136 
55 
37 

198 
70 

146 
28 
89 
40 

147 

63 
81 

111 
40 
44 

212 
87 

100 
30 
24 
45 

156 

12 

"2^ 

15 



"46 
"65 

7 

Walker   Building 

Kimball  &   Chandler 

North    Pavilion.... 

14 

17 

Twitchell    Hoiise 

Peaslee    Building 

2 

Peaslee  Annex  

5 

Hospital  Building 

§ 

1,102 

993 

163 

54 

KEW   HAMPSHIRE   STATE  HOSPITAL.  7 

Excess  of  patients  over  capacity 163 

Available  beds  at  present  time  occur  in  quiet  wards  only 64 

On  Women's  side  at  present  time  only  vacant  beds  are  as  follows : 

Hospital   Building    0 

Walker  Building  9 

Bancroft  Building   ^ 7 

Kent  Building   0 

-         16 

Net  shortage  of  beds  in  entire  Hospital  at  present  time 109 

Kent  Building  (disturbed  female)  has  normal  capacity  of 156 

This  capacity  is  exceeded  by  12  patients  in  Kent  Building  and  by  25 
now  in  Fiske  and  Rumford,  and  15  in  South  Pavilion  that  ought 
to   be   classified  in   Kent  Building,   making  a  total  excess  of  Kent 

Building  patients  of 52 

Entire  Peaslee  Building  (disturbed  male)  has  a  normal  capacity  of 69 

This  capacity  is  exceeded  by  an  excess  of  Peaslee  Building  patients  of        60 

While  this  statement  shows  that  both  the  Kent  and  Peas- 
lee Buildings  for  disturbed  patients  are  crowed  far  beyond 
their  capacity,  I  would  suggest  that  the  enlargement  foi 
women  patients  be  undertaken  at  once  and  that  an  appro- 
priation for^this  purpose  be  asked. 

The  work  of  the  training  school  for  nurses  has  progressed 
most  satisfactorily  under  Miss  Bertha  CornwalFs  able  man- 
agement. Through  her  efforts  many  desirable  affiliations 
with  New  York  General  hospitals  have  been  made,  thereby 
greatly  enriching  the  efficiency  of  the  school. 

The  following  changes  have  occurred  in  the  medical  staff. 
Dr.  P.  T.  Haskell  resigned  to  accept  the  position  of  assist- 
ant superintendent  at  the  Eastern  Maine  Insane  Hospital, 
and  Dr.  S.  G.  Davis  resigned  to  enter  upon  the  practice  of 
general  medicine  in  Nashua.  These  vacancies  have  been 
filled  by  Drs.  Edmund  H.  Robbins  and  Dr.  Arthur  J.  Nu- 
g;ent.  During  the  summer  months  the  position  of  interne 
has  been  filled  most  acceptably  by  Dr.  Rolf  C.  Norris,  who 
shortly  returns  to  Hanover  to  assume  the  position  of  house 
officer  at  the  Mary.  Hitchcock  Hospital.  The  staff  have  been 
most  faithful  to  their  trust,  for  which  the  superintendent 
wishes  to  express  his  appreciation. 

Charles  P.  Bancroft, 

Superintendent. 

Concord,  N.  H.,  Nov.  6,  1914. 


STATISTICAL  TABLES  FOR   THE   YEAR   ENDING 
AUGUST  31.  1913. 

TABLE  NO.  1. 


Patients  in  hospital  Sept.  1,  1912.. 

Cases  admitted  during  the  year. . . 

Discharged  within  the  year,  includ- 
ing deaths  

Discharged  recovered  from  first  at 
tack 

Discharged    recovered    from    other 
than   first   attack 

Discharged   much    improved 

Discharged  improved     

Discharged  not  improved 

Discharged  not  insane . , 

Eloped,  not  returned 

Deaths    

Patients  remaining  Sept.  1,  1913. . . 

Number  of  different  persons  under 
treatment  during  year 

Number  of  different  persons  admit- 
ted during  year 

Number  of  different  persons  recov- 
ered during  year 

Daily  average  number  of  patients . . 


Men. 


500 
203 

178 

37 

8 
13 
15 
10 

3 

7 

85 

525 

698 

199 

45 
505.36 


Women. 


457 
209 

133 

23 

17 
10 
11 
13 

0 

0 

59 

533 

664 

206 

40 
480.89 


Total. 


957 
412 

311 

60 

25 

23 

26 

23 

3 

7 

144 

,058 

,362 

405 

85 
986.25 


TABLE  II. 
Showing  Eesults  in  all  Under  Treatment  During  the  Year. 


Of  those  in  the 

hospital  at  the 

beginning  of 

the  year. 

Of  those 

admitted 

during  year. 

Total  of 
both  classes. 

i 

i 

5 

o 
Eh 

0 

•a 

t 

EH 

1 

1 

Discharged  recovered   

Discharged    much    improved 

Discharged   improved    

Discharged    not    improved.. 

Discharged    not    insane 

Discharged   absconded    

Deaths   

8 
9 

7 
4 

1 

6 

44 

19 
4 
2 
5 
0 
0 

35 

27 
13 
9 
9 
1 
6 
79 

37 
4 
8 
6 
2 
1 

41 

21 
6 
9 
8 
0 
0 

94 

58 
10 
17 
14 
2 
1 
65 

45 
13 
15 
10 
3 
7 
85 

40 
10 
11 
13 
0 
0 
59 

85 
23 
26 
23 
3 
7 
144 

Remaining  improved   

Remaining    not    improved. . 

106 
321 

53 

348 

159 
669 

40 
57 

36 

97 

76 
154 

146 
378 

89 
445 

235 
823 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE  STATE  HOSPITAL. 


TABLE  III. 

Showing  Number  of  Admissions  to  This  Hospital  in  Those 
Admitted  During  the  Year. 


Men. 

Women, 

Total. 

Admitted  the  first  time 

Admitted  the  second  time    

Admitted  the  third  time 

Admitted  the  fourth  time    

Admitted  the  fifth  time 

Admitted  the  sixth  time 

Admitted  the  seventh  time 

Admitted  the  thirteenth  time . . . 

176 

19 

4 

2 

1 
1 
0 
0 

164 
36 
6 
1 
0 
0 
1 
1 

340 
•55 
10 
3 
1 
1 
1 
1 

Total 

203 

209 

412 

TABLE  IV. 
Showing  Ages  Of  Those  Admitted  Duping  the  Year. 


Men. 

Women. 

Total. 

Under  fifteen 

0 

9 

18 

28 

19 

24 

20 

11 

29 

19 

20 

5 

1 

1 

6 

10 

12 

23 

14 

25 

28 

38 

30 

17 

5 

0 

1 

Fifteen  to  twenty 

15 

Twenty  to  twenty-five 

Twenty-five  to  thirty 

Thirty  to  thirty-five 

28 
40 
42 

Thirty-five  to  forty 

Forty  to  forty-five 

38 
45 

Forty-five  to  fifty 

39 

Fifty    to    sixty 

Sixty  to  seventy 

Seventy  to  eighty 

67 
49 
37 

Over  eighty 

10 

Unknown 

1 

Total    

203 

209 

412 

10 


NEW   HAMPSHIRE   STATE   HOSPITAL. 


TABLE  V. 
Showing  Form  of  Disease  in  Those  Admitted  During  the  Year. 


Manic  depressive 

Dementia  prsecox 

Acute  alcoholism    

Chronic  alcoholism 

Organic  dementia 

Secondary     dementia      (transfer 

from  County  Farms) 

Senile  dementia    

Epileptic  dementia    

Alcoholic  hallucinosis 

Congenital  imbecility   

Epileptic  imbecility    

Epileptic  insanity    

Choreic  insanity 

Traumatic  insanity 

Presenile  insanity 

Paresis     

Paranoia  and  allied  states .... 

Acute  confusional  insanity 

Involutional  melancholia 

Epilepsy    

Uremic  delirium 

Narcomania 

Amentia    

Hysteria    

Psychasthenia    

Idiocy 

Not  insane   

Total    


Men. 


15 
31 
38 
12 
11 

6 
25 
5 
3 
16 
4 
1 
1 
1 
1 
14 
3 
3 
3 
3 
1 
1 
0 
0 
1 
1 
3 


Women. 


Total. 


203 


48 

20 

5 

3 

4 

52 

23 
6 
0 
4 
0 
0 
0 
0 
2 
8 

10 
3 

15 
0 
2 
1 
1 
2 
0 
0 
0 


209 


63 
51 
43 
15 
15 

58 

48 

11 

3 

20 

4 

1 

1 

1 

3 

22 

13 

6 

18 

3 

3 

2 

1 

2 

1 

1 

3 


412 


NEW  HAMPSHIKE  STATE  HOSPITAL. 


11 


SHOWIN' 


TABLE  VI. 

Possible     Causes      or     Predisposing 
Cases  Admitted  During  Year. 


Factors     in 


Alcohol    

Heredity    

Alcohol  and  heredity 

Old  age 

Ill  health 

Overwork  and  worry 

Grief  and  worry 

Epilepsy 

Apoplexy 

Syphilis    

Trauma    

Psychic  trauma    

Sunstroke    

Morphine 

Menopause    

Puerperal    

Surgical  operation 

Overstudy 

Loss  of  property 

Previous    attack 

No  possible  cause  shown 

Total    


Men. 


50 

20 

2 


Women. 


4 
38 

12 

8 
6 
3 
0 
1 
1 
3 
0 
1 
5 


Total. 


54 
58 
2 
19 
16 
11 


0 

1 

1 

0 

1 

1 

1 

0 

1 

0 

1 

1 

1 

1 

2 

88 

112 

200 

203 

209 

1 

412 

TABLE  VII. 
Showing  Civil  Condition  of  Those  Admitted  During  the  Year. 


Men. 

Women. 

Total. 

Married    ,, 

84 

96 

21 

2 

0 

83 

74 

41 

7 

4 

167 

Single    

170 

Widowed   

62 

Divorced    

9 

Unknown     

4 

Total 


203 


209 


412 


12 


NEW   HAMPSHIRE   STATE  HOSPITAL. 


TABLE  VIII. 
Showing  Occupation  of  Those  Admitted  Dubing  the  Yeab. 


Men. 

Women. 

Total. 

Housework 

0 
0 
17 
12 
1 
0 
0 
2 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 

27 

1 

109 
54 
23 

2 
2 
2 
1 
2 
1 
2 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 

0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 

109 

Xo  occupation 

54 

Mill  operative 

40 

Shoemaker    .' 

13 

Paper  maker  

2 

Peddler    

Canvasser    

Cook 

Matron 

Bank  clerk  

Bookkeeper  

Office   clerk 

Nurse    

Nurse  maid   

2 

Tailoress  

Seamstress    

2 
2 
1 
2 
2 

Dressmaker    

Pianist 

Teacher   

Laundress  

Laborer    

Currier 

Carriage  trimmer 

Coal  bearer   

Baker  

'Electrician    

Bartender   

Elevator  man 

Stenographer     

Hostler 

Conductor  

Signal  man  on  a  derrick 

Watchman    

Cooper  

Shoe  dealer   

Printer 

Barber 

Gardener  

Proprietor  of  garage 

Newspaper  reporter 

Clothing  dealer 

Minister 

Confectioner    

Wood  chopper • 

Farmer    [[ 

27 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE  STATE  HOSPITAL. 
TABLE   Yin.— Concluded. 


13 


Men. 

Women. 

Total. 

Blacksmith 

4 
2 
2 
2 
3 
2 

4    ~ 
4 
5 
2 
3 
4 
2 
6 
1 
17 

0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 

4 

Wood  dealer 

2 

Merchant     

Railroad  man 

2 
2 
3 
2 
4 
4 
5 
2 
3 
4 
2 
6 
1 
17 

Teamster 

Druggist    

Carpenter    

Machinist    • 

Clerk    

Pattern  maker   

Painter    

Stone  cutter 

Undertaker    

Mason    

Brick  maker 

Not  known 

Total 

203 

209 

412 

14 


NEW   HAMPSHIKE   STATE  HOSPITAL. 


TABLE  IX. 
Showing  Nativity  of  Those  Admitted  During  the  Year. 


Ireland 

Canada    

New  Hampshire    

United   States    (state  unknown) 

Vermont    

Maine  

New  York 

Nova  Scotia  

Massachusetts    

Scotland    

Greece    

Venezuela    

Connecticut    

Germany    

Italy  

Syria    

Nebraska     

Finland    

Russia    

Sweden    

New  Brunswick 

Not  known 

England 

China    

Rhode  Island   

Poland   

Ohio    

Mississippi    

Prince  Edward  Island 

British  Columbia   

Portugal    

Total    


Men. 


7 

41 

85 

16 

9 

4 

2 

1 

7 

0 

0 

0 

1 

0 
3 
0 
0 
3 
1 
2 

a 

7 
6 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 


Women. 


203 


26 

25 

91 

17 

6 

5 

4 

5 

6 

3 

2 


Total. 


33 
66 
176 
33 
15 
9 
6 
6 
13 
3 
2 
1 
2 
1 
4 
1 
1 
4 
2 
3 
2 
12 
9 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 


209 


412 


NEW  HAMPSHIKE  STATE  HOSPITAL. 


15 


TABLE  X. 
Showikg  Kesidence  of  Those  Admitted  During  the  Year. 


Men. 


Women. 


Total. 


Belknap  County   

Carroll  County   

Cheshire    CouuJ:y    

Coos   County    

Grafton  County 

Hillsborough  County 

Merrimack  County    

Eocking-ham  County   

Strafford  County   

Sullivan  County 

Not  known   (prison  transfer)  . 

Total 


6 

5 

8 

14 

15 

71 

42 

21 

13 

7 

1 


203 


1 
7 
15 
8 
14 
78 
25 
37 
18 


209 


7 
12 
23 
22 
29 
149 
67 
58 
31 
13 
1 


412 


TABLE  XI. 
Showing  by  Whom  Supported. 


Men. 

Women. 

Total. 

Private    

Private  with  aid 

37 

26 

139 

1 

0 

36 

42 

129 

1 
1 

73 

68 

State 

County   

Town   or  city 

268 
2 
1 

Total 

203 

209 

412 

16 


NEW  HAMPSHIRE  STATE  HOSPITAL. 


TABLE  XII. 
Showing  Deaths  During  Yeae,  and  Their  Causes. 


Men. 

Women. 

Total. 

Arterio  sclerosis 

3 

4 
0 
1 
1 
0 
0 
10 
0 
0 

I 

0 

0 
0 
8 
12 
3 
0 
4 

1 
1 
1 

1 
1 
1 
1 
2 
1 
2 
1 
6 
1 
1 
3 
1 
2 
5 

3 

8 
2 
1 
5 
1 
1 
8 
3 
5 
2 
6 

1 
3 

0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 

0 

6 

Entercolitis    

\2 

Gastritis   and    enteritis 

2 

Amentia    

2 

Exhaustion  in  melancholia 

Cardiac  embolism 

6 
1 

Infective  diarrhoea 

1 

Exhaustion  in  senile  dementia.. 
Fracture  of  femur 

18 
3 

Valvular  disease  of  the  heart . . . 
Exhaustion  in  'dementia  praecox 
Epilepsy    

5 

5 

10 

Pellagra    

-1 

Oedema  of  the  lungs 

1 

Hemorrhage  of  the  bowels 

Chronic  interstitial  nephritis 

Cerebral  hemorrhage   

1 
11 

13 
4 

1 
5 

2 

4 

1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
2 
1 
2 
1 
6 
1 
1 
3 
1 

Tuberculosis 

Anaemia  

Broncho  pneumonia    

Exhaustion     in     secondary     de- 
mentia    

Acute  mania    

Exhaustion  in  choreic  insanity. . 
Uraemic  convulsion    

Exhaustion  in  organic  dementia 
Cystitis    

Peritonitis 

Typhoid  fever   

Huntington's  chorea   

Suicide    

Oedema  of  brain 

Paresis    

Lobar  pneumonia  

Surgical  operation 

Erysipelas 

Septicemia    

Acute  alcoholism , 

Chronic  diffuse  nephritis 

5 

Total    

85 

59 

144 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE  STATE  HOSPITAL. 


17 


TABLE  XIII. 
Showing  Ages  at  Time  of  Death. 


Men. 

Women. 

Total. 

Under  tweiitv  vears 0 

1 

4 

12 

10 

8 

7 

12 

4 

1 

0 

1 

Twenty  to  thirty  years 4 

Thirtv  to  f ortv  vears . .          15 

8 
27 

Forty  to  fifty  years 10 

Fifty  to  sixty  years 17 

20 
25 

Sixty  to  seventy  years 17 

24 

Seventy  to  eighty  years 17 

Eighty  to  ninety  years 3 

Ninety  to  one  hundred  years 1 

Not  known   i               1 

29 
7 
2 
1 

Total     !             85 

59                  144 

STATISTICAL  TABLES  FOR  YEAR  ENDING  AUGUST 

31,  1914. 


TABLE  I. 


Men. 


Women. 


Total. 


Patients  in  hospital  September 
1,  1913   

Cases  admitted  during  the  year 

Discharged  within  the  year,  in- 
cluding deaths    

Discharged  recovered  from  first 
attack    

Discharged  recovered  from  other 
than  first  attack 

Discharged  much  improved    

Discharged  improved    

Discharged  not  improved    

Discharged  not  insane 

Discharged  eloped    

Deaths  

Patients  remaining  'September 
1,  1914   

Number  of  different  persons  un- 
der treatment  during  the  year 

Number  of  different  persons  ad- 
mitted during  the  year 

Number  of  different  persons  re- 
covered during  the  year 

Daily  average  number  of  patients 


525 

533 

i        1,058 

207 

159 

366 

177 

137 

314 

30 

24 

54 

14 

11 

25 

14 

15 

•       29 

22 

22 

44 

9 

13 

22 

5 

1 

6 

4 

0 

4 

79 

51 

130 

555 

555 

1,110 

727 

682 

1,409 

203 

154 

357 

44 

34 

78 

543.1 

542.6 

1,085.7 

TABLE  II. 
Showing  Results  in  All  Under  Treatment  During  the  Year. 


1 
Of  those  in    1         Of  those 
hospital  at             admitted 
beginning           during  year, 
of  year. 

Total 
of  both 
classes. 

Men. 
Women. 

Total. 
Men. 

i 
i 

73 

1 

i 

i 
1 

1 

Discharged  recovered    

Discharged  much     improved 

Discharged  improved     

Discharged  not    improved... 

Discharged  not  insane 

Discharged  eloped    

16       19       35 
5       10       15 
7       13   !    20 
5         5       10 
0         0         0 
10         1 

28 
9 

15 
4 
5 
3 

16       44 
6       14 
9       24 
8       12 
1         6 
0         3 

44       35 

14  1     15 

22        22 

9        13 

5         1 

4          0 

79 
29 
44 
22 
6 
4 

Died    

Remaining   improved    

Remaining   not    improved... 

43       35 

33        47 

415      404 

78 

80 

819 

36 
34 

73 

16 
35 
69 

52 

69 

142 

79 
67 

488 

51 

82 
473 

130 
149 
961 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE  STATE  HOSPITAL. 


19 


TABLE  III. 

Admissions    and    Dischabges    from    the    Beginning    of    the 

Hospital. 


Men. 


Women. 


Total. 


Admitted 

Discharged    

Discharged  recovered    . . . 

Discharged  improved    

Discharged  not  improved 
Discharged  not  insane  . , 
Discharged  unknown    . .  . . 

Discharged  eloped    

Died    


5,958 

5,403 

1,632 

1,162 

920 

57 

49 

94 

1,489 


5,401 

4,846 

1,537 

1,145 

922 

31 

39 

4 

1,168 


11,359 

10,249 

3.169 

2,307 

1,842 

88 

88 

98 

2,657 


TABLE  IV. 

Showing   Number   of   Admissions   in   Those   Admitted   During 

the  Year. 


Men. 


First   admission    

Second  admission 

Third  admission 

Fourth   admission    . . . 

Fifth  admission    

Eighth  admission  . .  . . 

Ninth  admission 

Fourteenth  admission 

Totals 


Women. 


Total. 


178 

125 

303 

23 

24 

47 

3 

4 

7 

1 

2 

3 

2 

1 

3 

0 

1 

1 

0 

1 

1 

0 

1 

1 

207 

159 

366 

20 


NEW  HAMPSHIRE  STATE  HOSPITAL. 


TABLE  V. 
Showing  Ages  of  Those  Admitted  During  the  Yeab. 


Men. 


Women. 


Total. 


From  ten  to  fifteen  years 

fifteen  to  twenty  years . .  . . 
twenty  to  twenty-five  years 
twenty-five  to  thirty  years 
thirty  to  thirty-five  years 
thirty-five  to  forty  years 
forty  to  forty-five  years . . 
forty-five  to  fifty  years . . . 

fifty  to  sixty  years 

sixty  to  seventy  years 

seventy  to  eighty  years 

Over  eighty  years 

Total  I 


2 
11 
15 
23 
20 
25 
19 
13 
30 
29 
15 
5 


207 


1 
ft 

12 
14 
24 
18 
16 
14 
24 
18 
10 
2 


159 


3 
17 
27 
37 
44 
43 
35 
27 
54 
47 
25 

7 


366 


NEW  HAMPSHIEB  STATE  HOSPITAL. 


21 


TABLE  VI. 
Showing  Form  of  Disease  in  Those  Admitted  Dubing  the  Year. 


Manic  depressive    

Dementia  praecox 

Senile  dementia    

Paresis 

Invohitional   melancholia 
Congenital  imbecility   .  . .  . 

Acute  alcoholism    

Paranoia  and  allied  states 
Alcoholic  hallucinosis  .... 

Organic  dementia 

Presenile  insanity    

Alcoholic  dementia    

Acute  confusional    

Chronic  alcoholism    

Epileptic  insanity 

Epileptic  dementia    

Morphinomania 

Constitutional  psychopath 

Pellagrous  insanity 

Cerebral    arterio    sclerosis 

Epileptic  imbecility , 

Hysterical  insanity   , 

Alzhiemers  disease    

Traumatic  insanity  

Cerebral  syphilis    

Idiocy 

Psychic  epilepsy    , 

Prison   psychosis    

Hypochondriasis 

Thyroid  psychosis 

Not  insane   

Total    


Men. 

Women. 

Total. 

26 

37 

63 

30 

20 

50 

26 

17 

43 

23 

9 

32 

11 

13 

24 

9 

13 

22 

12 

4 

16 

3 

11 

14 

14 

0 

14 

8 

3 

11 

2 

8 

10 

7 

2 

9 

1 

8 

9 

6 

2 

8 

5 

2 

7 

3 

3 

6 

4 

1 

5 

2 

0 

2 

1    1 

1 

2 

1    I 

1 

2 

1    ! 

1 

2 

0    1 

2 

2 

1-   1 

0 

1    1 

0 

1    j 

0 

1    1 

0 

1 

0 

1 

0 

1 

0 

1 

0 

4   ; 

i 

1 

5 

207 


159 


366 


22 


NEW   HAMPSHIRE   STATE   HOSPITAL. 


TABLE  VII. 

Showing  Probaule  Causes  or  Predisposing  Factors  in   Those 
Admitted  During  Year. 


Men. 


Heretlitv    36 

Alcohol'   42 

Age    23 

Syphilis   j            24 

Overwork  and  worry |            10 

Epilepsy    ;              9 

Previous  attacks |               2 

Injury    i              6 

Morphine I               4 

Childbirth  0 

Prison  life    5 

111  health 3 

Menopause    i              0 

Fright    j              0 

Arterio  sclerosis  r  •  •  !              2 

No  possible  cause  shown ''.            41 

Total     207 


Women.     I     Total. 


44 

80 

12 

54 

14 

37 

5 

29 

17 

27 

7 

16 

5 

7 

1 

7 

2 

6 

6 

6 

0 

5 

2 

5 

3 

3 

3 

3 

0 

2 

38 

79 

159 


366 


TABLE  VIII. 
Showing  Civil  Condition  of  Those  Admitted  During  the  Year. 


Men. 


Women. 


Total. 


Married    . 
Single 
Widowed 
Divorced 

Total 


86 

76 

162 

93 

51 

144 

25 

25 

50 

3 

7 

10 

! 

207 

i    159 

1 

366 

NEW   HAMPSHIKE   STATE   HOSPITAL. 


23 


TABLE  IX. 
Showing  Occupations  of  Those  Admitted  During  the  Year. 


Men. 


Women. 


Total. 


Actor    

Awning  maker   .... 

Business  man 

Baker  

Barber   

Blacksmith 

Bookkeeper  

Brickmason    

Carpenter   

Catholic  Sister 

Chauffeur    

Call  boy 

Cooper   

Chairseater 

Clerk    

Cook    

Dressmaker    

Drugg-ist    

Electric  engineer  .  . 
Fireman,  stationary 
Freight  handler   .  . . , 

Farmer 

Grocer    

Housework    

Laborer    

Lumberman    

Loom  fixer   

Mill  operative    

Mate,  U.  S  Navy 

Musician    

Machinist    

Nurse 

No  occupation 

Night  watchman    .  .  . 

Overseer  in  shop 

Painter    

Peddler    

Plasterer  

Physician    

Kailroad   man    

Shoe  worker    

Soldier  

Stone  cutter 

Salesman     

School  teacher 

School  ofirl    


1 
1 
7 
1 
2 
1 
1 
1 

12 
0 
2 
1 
1 
1 
4 
2 
0 
2 
1 
2 
1 

26 
1 
0 

39 
2 
1 

29 
1 
2 
3 
0 

18 
1 
1 
6 
1 
1 
2 

2 

14 
1 

2 

1 

0 

0 


0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
2 
0 
0 

1 

0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
2 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 

101 
0 
0 
0 
18 
0 
0 
0 
2 

27 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 

1 

0 
0 
0 

1 
1 


1 
1 

7 
1 
3 

1 
3 
1 

12 
1 
3 

1 
1 
1 
4 
2 

3 
2 
1 
2 
1 

26 

1 

101 

39 
2 
1 

47 
1 
2 

3 
2 
45 
1 
1 
6 
1 
1 
2 
2 

15 
1 
2 

1 

1 
1 


24 


NEW  HAMPSHIKE  STATE  HOSPITAL. 


Men. 


Women. 


Total. 


Seamstress    0 

Trance  medium I  1 

Tailor 1 

Teamster     2 

Telegraph  operative    1 

Waiter    1 

Wood  turner    1 

Not  known   2 

Total     207 


159 


366 


TABLE  X. 
Showing  Nativity  of  Those  Admitted  During  the  Year. 


Men. 

Women. 

Total. 

New  Hampshire 

92 
34 
16 
19 
9 
9 
4 
3 
4 
2 
3 
1 
1 
2 
2 
2 
•       1 
1 
1 
1 
0 
0 
0 

80 

21 

12 

5 

13 

10 

3 

2 

0 

2 

1 

2 

2 

1 

X) 

0 

0 
0 

1 
1 

1 

172 

Canada  

jNfassachu setts    

:M&ine   

55 
28 
24 

Ireland     

22 

Vermont    

19 

England 

Russia    

7 
5 

Poland    

Pennsylvania    

4 
4 

Germany    

Scotland    

t 

Finland    

New  York  

3 

9 

Italy     

2 
2 

Syria    

Rhode  Island   

2 
2 

Illinois 

Austria    

Sweden    

Switzerland    

Egypt  

Connecticut    

Total 

207 

159 

366 

NEW    HAMPSHIKE    STATE   HOSPITAL. 


25 


TABLE  XI. 
Showing  IIesidence  of  Those  Admitted  Dubing  the  Yeab. 


Men. 

Women. 

Total. 

9 
8 
13 
10 
17 
73 
27 
22 
13 
10 
5 

9 
5 

7 

2 

12 

59 

28 

20 

9 

8 

0 

18 

Carroll  County    

13 

20 

Coos  County 

12 

Grafton  County    

Hillsboroufi'li  Countv  

29 
132 

Merrimack   County 

55 

Kocking'liani  County    

42 

Strafford  County 

22 

Sullivan  County    * 

18 

Prison  transfers  

5 

Total    

207 

159 

366 

TABLE  XII. 
Showing  by  Whom  Suppobted. 


State  

Private     

Private  with  aid 
Town  or  city.  .  . 
County     

Total    


207 


159 


366 


26 


NEW  HAMPSHIRE  STATE  HOSPITAL. 


TABLE  XIII. 
Showing  Deaths  and  Theib  Causes. 


Cerebral  hemorrhag-e    

Arterio    sclerosis    

Paresis     

Chronic  interstitial  nephritis... 

Chronic  diifuse  nephritis 

Valvular  disease  of  heart 

Myocarditis    

Endocarditis     

Pericarditis 

Cardiac  embolism 

Acute  dilatation  of  heart 

Lobar  pneumonia 

Broncho  pneumonia 

Hypostatic  pneumonia   

Gastro-enteritis     

Acute  indigestion 

Intestinal  obstruction    

Exhaustion  in  senile  dementia. . 

Exhaustion  in  acute  mania 

Exhaustion  in  melancholia    .... 

Exhaustive  x^sychosis    

Pellagra    

Tuberculosis  of  lungs     

Tuberculous  pleurisy 

General  tuberculosis   

Organic  brain  disease 

Cancer  of  colon 

Gastric  ulcer   

Septic  meningitis 

Epilepsy    

Uraemic  convulsions 

Diabetes    

Suicide 

Erysipelas     

Pyonephrosis    

Tonsilitis    

Heat  exhaustion j 

Total     ! 


Men. 


Women. 


ToUL 


16 
8 
10 
9 
0 
5 
0 
1 
1 
1 
0 
3 
1 
0 
3 
1 
0 
3 
0 
0 
3 
3 
2 
0 
1 
2 
0 
1 
0 

1 

0 

1 
1 
1 
1 

0 
0 


79 


21 


51 


130 


XEW  HAMPSHIRE  STATE  HOSPITAL. 


37 


TABLE  XIV. 
Showing  Ages  at  Time  of  Death. 


Men. 

Women. 

Total. 

Between  twenty  and  thirty  years 
thirty  and  forty  years . . 
forty  and  fifty  years . . . 
fifty  and  sixty  years. . . 
sixty  and  seventy  years 
seventy  and  eighty  years 
eighty  and  ninety  years 

Over  ninety  years 

1 
13 

8 
16 
23 
13 

5 

0 

3 
6 
7 
7 

11 
9 
7 
1 

4 
19 
15 
23 
34 
22 

1 

Total    

79 

51 

130 

28 


NEW  HAMPSHIRE  STATE  HOSPIfAL. 


TABLE  XV. 

Statistics  of  Admissions,  Discharges,  and  Deaths  fbom  the 
Opening  of  the  Hospital. 


-tf 

1 

1  fe*^" 

"*  u 

s 

[ 

l» 

ss 

. 

is 

^^ 

Daily  Averages  of 

i 

1 

il 

'6 

1 

:i 

ll 

the 

Hospital. 

1 

ll 

1 

P. 

1 

-6 

Si 

Men. 

Worn.  :  Total. 

i^ 

< 

fl 

« 

to 

S 

^^ 

fv*  o 

1 

1843 

76 

29 

12 

10 

6 

-  1 

76 

47 

- 



1844 

104 

81 

37 

20 

19 

5 

151 

70 

.... 

!    

1845 

88 

82 

37 

17 

22 

6 

158 

76 

.... 

1    

1846 

98 

76 

26 

23 

16 

11 

174 

98 

.... 

1847 

89 

87 

38 

17 

23 

9 

187 

100 

i    '. 

1848 

92 

83 

29 

20 

26 

8 

192 

109 

j   

1849 

81 

76 

36 

15 

11 

14 

190 

114 

.... 

\       

1850 

103 

90 

45 

18 

20 

7 

217 

127 



i 

1851 

88 

98 

45 

25 

16 

12 

215 

117 

;   

1852 

107 

106 

66 

13 

16 

11 

224 

118 



1853 

132 

107 

65 

25 

11 

8 

250 

143 



1854 

141 

123 

63 

24 

22 

14 

284 

161 

.... 

1855 

95 

91 

50 

20 

9 

12 

246 

155 

.',.'.. 

1856 

85 

96 

66 

13 

7 

10 

250 

154 

i   

1857 

97 

81 

47 

15 

7 

12 

251 

170 

.... 



1858 

76 

77 

34 

20 

5 

18 

246 

169 

1   * ".  * .'  ] 

1859 

98 

85 

31 

22 

18 

14 

26^ 

182 

1860 

85 

83 

38 

16 

12 

17 

26'i 

184 

94;6' 

8J8.0 

m.o 

1861 

106 

94 

34 

34 

10 

16 

290 

196 

90.0 

100.0 

190.0 

1862 

86 

94 

42 

32 

7 

13 

282 

188 

88.7 

105.7 

101.4 

1863 

101 

85 

30 

32 

17 

16 

289 

204 

87.4 

105.9 

103.3 

1864 

105 

92 

36 

16 

17 

23 

309 

217 

99.4 

107.4 

206.8 

1865 

107 

102 

42 

23 

14 

22 

324 

223 

102.5 

125.9 

218.4 

1866 

104 

91 

26 

28 

16 

21 

327 

236 

106.3 

122.6 

228.9 

1867 

117 

107 

39 

24 

27 

17 

353 

246 

119.3 

122.6 

241.9 

1868 

118 

129 

51 

39 

18 

21 

364 

235 

118.5 

121.2^ 

f         239.77 

1869 

95 

93 

42 

20 

9 

22 

330 

237 

113.7 

129.9 

243.6 

1870 

130 

114 

37 

34 

20 

23 

367 

253 

123.1 

125.9 

249.0 

1871 

135 

163 

65 

37 

29 

32 

388 

225 

119.8 

123.44 

242.S2 

1872 

152 

123 

55 

31 

16 

21 

377 

254 

109.36 

125.19 

234.55 

1873 

194 

172 

61 

51 

27 

33 

448 

273 

127.8 

139.5 

267.3 

1874 

140 

137 

42 

44 

27 

22 

416 

281 

140.4 

127.5 

267.9 

1875 

120 

140 

53 

37 

30 

20 

401 

261 

136.6 

138.1 

274.7 

1876 

140 

122 

35 

34 

27 

26 

401 

279 

121.4 

139.1 

260.5 

1877 

119 

118 

36 

38 

27 

17 

398 

280 

124.2 

150.3 

274.5 

1878 

114 

128 

35 

36 

30 

17 

394 

276 

128.9 

143.8 

272.7 

1879 

73 

81 

27 

23 

8 

23 

349 

268 

126.3 

143.8 

290.1 

1880 

111 

94 

28 

27 

22 

17 

379 

285 

127.4 

147.6 

275.0 

1881 

134 

117 

33 

39 

23 

22 

419 

302 

133.3 

158.6 

291.9 

1882 

104 

121 

38 

26 

27 

30 

406 

285 

131.0 

159.1 

290.1 

1883 

133 

123 

41 

23 

34 

25 

418 

295 

120.3 

164.1 

284.4 

1884 

141 

127 

18 

41 

44 

24 

436 

309 

124.3 

169.5 

293.8 

1885 

138 

122 

30 

20 

36 

36 

447 

322 

128.3 

181.9 

310.2 

1886 

138 

143 

43 

30 

34 

34 

460 

317 

139.82 

182.37 

322.19 

1887 

143 

128 

32 

28 

28 

33 

460 

328 

137.22 

184.12 

321.34 

1888 

137 

125 

33 

26 

35 

28 

465 

339 

150.49 

183.59 

334.08 

1889 

155 

158 

41 

38 

34 

36 

494 

337 

161.06 

175.80 

336.86 

1890 

276 

223 

79 

28 

63 

53 

602 

364 

166.52 

184.57 

351.09 

1891 

173 

165 

42 

40 

37 

38 

527 

372 

175.62 

184.99 

360.61 

1892 

169 

181 

51 

39 

40 

42 

531 

359 

181.40 

182.38 

363.78 

1893 

166 

154 

47 

35 

34 

37 

508 

368 

183.72 

193.63 

369.02 

1894 

187 

152 

52 

33 

27 

35 

542 

402 

190.14 

193.35 

383.49 

1895 

175 

165 

55 

45 

27 

36 

566 

414 

m.fil 

204 

L79 

404.36 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE  STATE  HOSPITAL. 


29 


TABLE  XV.— Concluded. 




-« 

fn"^ 

■«  u 

S 

|§ 

Daily  Averages  of 

i 

1 

1 

i 

1 

the 

Hospital 

1 

r 

1 

> 

1 

P. 
c! 

'6 

s 

ii 

1; 

i 

Men. 

Worn. 

Total. 

1896 

181 

171 

42 

44 

34 

40 

586 

422 

201.31 

210.65 

411.96 

1897 

147 

147 

38 

30 

30 

36 

561 

422 

210.26 

214.60 

424.86 

1898 

150 

163 

46 

40 

34 

33 

567 

409 

201.93 

210.71 

412.64 

1899 

179 

161 

48 

26 

34 

39 

577 

427 

202.38 

220.88 

423.26 

1900 

149 

151 

37 

37 

26 

49 

668 

425 

198.42 

221.71 

420.13 

1901 

202 

193 

52 

56 

31 

49 

617 

434 

203.12 

222.53 

425.65 

1902 

247 

217 

76 

53 

25 

56 

670 

464 

223.86 

242.49 

466.35 

1903 

240 

215 

52 

41 

66 

50 

702 

490 

232.21 

242.75 

475.16 

1904 

303 

213 

57 

46 

32 

69 

782 

580 

260.26 

257.63 

517.89 

1905 

290 

227 

61 

46 

26 

77 

852 

643 

321.60 

294.09 

615.69 

1906 

234 

209 

58 

29 

34 

73 

864 

668 

343.75 

308.27 

652.02 

1907 

278 

238 

63 

52 

18 

91 

970 

708 

361.68 

327.49 

689.17 

1908 

299 

176 

56 

28 

12 

68 

1,010 

831 

390.17 

326.74 

716.91 

1909 

292 

248 

65 

43 

19 

112 

1,114 

875 

465.17 

399.16 

864.33 

1910 

293 

259 

66 

33 

23 

131 

1,168 

909 

467.08 

421.15 

888.23 

1911 

301 

272 

69 

45 

18 

133 

1,203 

938 

482.94 

438.57 

921.51 

1912 

327 

308 

97 

35 

20 

139 

1.517 

957 

496.4 

459.5 

955.9 

1913 

412 

311 

85 

49 

23 

144 

1,362 

1,058 

505.36 

480.89 

986.25 

1914 

366 

314 

79 

73 

22 

130 

1.409 

1,110 

543.1 

542.6 

1085.7 

PKODUCTS  OF  THE  FARM,   1913. 


623  bunches 

aspai'ag-us, 

$0.22 

$137.06 

7.325  pounds 

rhubarb, 

.01 

73.25 

1,425  heads 

lettuce, 

.04 

457.00 

1,500  dozen 

cucumbers, 

.24 

360.00 

173  bushels 

cucumbers  (pickling-). 

1.30 

224.90 

628  bushels 

turnips, 

1.00 

628.00 

31  tons 

winter  squash. 

23.00 

713.00 

425  bushels 

summer  squash. 

.30 

127.50 

93  bushels 

peas. 

1.25 

116.25 

437  bushels 

spinach. 

.50 

218.50 

625  bushels 

strintr  beans. 

2.00 

1,250.00 

323  bushels 

shell  beans. 

2.25 

726.75 

237  bushels 

ripe  tomatoes, 

.60 

142.20 

200  bu.shels 

^reen  tomatoes. 

1.35 

270.00 

4.725  dozen 

sweet  corn. 

.15 

708.75 

22  tons 

sweet  corn  fodder. 

8.00 

176.00 

l.SOO  heads 

early  cabbage. 

.08 

144.00 

400  heads 

red  cabbage. 

.12 

48.00 

435  heads 

cauliflower, 

.16 

69.60 

327  bushels 

beets. 

.85 

277.95 

248  bushels 

beet  greens. 

.15 

37.20 

1,250  heads 

celery    (early). 

.15 

187.50 

5.000  heads 

celery    (late), 

.21 

i.aso.oo 

467  bu.shels 

onions, 

1.00 

467.00 

30 


NEW  HAMPSHIRE  STATE  HOSPItIl. 


390  bushels 

imrsnips. 

1.25 

487.50 

6  bushels 

peppers, 

1.25 

7.50 

420  bushels 

carrots. 

.75 

315.00 

10  bushels 

parsley, 

.40 

4.00 

4,500  cakes 

ice, 

.15 

675.00 

40  tons 

hay, 

18.00 

720.00 

10  tons 

bedding. 

10.00 

100.00 

cows  sold. 

.... 

175.00 

empty  barrels  sold, 

.... 

82.25 

hides  sold, 



18.00 

harness  sold. 

►  . . . 

13.00 

pigs  sold. 

.... 

50.00 

1,201  pounds 

beef  consumed, 

.09 

108.09 

22,565  pounds 

pork  consumed. 

.141/2 

3,271.93 

48.980  quarts 

milk. 

.06 

2,938.80 

2.100  bushels 

potatoes. 

.70 

1,470.00 

$19,046.48 

T0I 

tal   products 
tal   products 

of  Sunnyside  Farm, 
of  Sunnyside  and  Main 

Farms, 

8,918.19 

T0I 

$27,964.67 

.    PRODUCTS  OP  THE  FARM  AT  SUNNYSIDE, 

1913. 

4 

Pi&s. 

$0.08 

$82.40 

2,696 

pounds 

chickens    (271), 

.16 

431.36 

150 

gallons 

maple  syrup, 

1.00 

150.00 

912 

quarts 

strawberries, 

.10 

91.20 

2,720 

quarts 

raspberries. 

.18 

489.60 

240 

quarts 

blackberries, 

.10 

24.00 

176 

quarts 

currants. 

.10 

17.00 

60 

barrels 

apples. 

2.50 

150.00 

40 

bushels 

cider  apples. 

.20 

8.00 

3.146 

bushels 

|x>tatoes. 

.60 

1,887.60 

20 

bushels 

beets. 

.85 

17.00 

18 

bushels 

carrots. 

.75 

13.50 

14 

bushels 

])arsnips. 

1.25 

17.50 

12 

bushels 

cucumbers. 

4.50 

54.00 

10 

bushels 

peas, 

1.25 

12.50 

8 

bushels 

tomatoes. 

.60 

4.80 

8 

bushels 

string  beans, 

2.00 

16.00 

12 

bushels 

sliell  beans, 

2.25 

27.00 

30 

bushels 

t  urnips, 

1.00 

30.00 

50 

bushels 

lettuce. 

.65 

32.50 

600  dozen 

sweet  corn. 

.15 

90.00 

1,000 

pounds 

rhubarb. 

.01 

10.00 

50 

bunches 

i-adishes. 

.05 

2.50 

14,000  heads 

cabbage, 

.08 

1,120.00 

45 

tons 

hay, 

18.00 

810.00 

2 

tons 

corn  fodder. 

8.00 

16.00 

6,000 

quarts 

milk, 

.06 

360.00 

358 

cakes 

ice. 

.15 

53.70 

7.275% 

dozen 

f^^. 

.35 

2,546.43 

ly^ 

bushels 

Japanese  plums. 

2.00 

3.00 

10 

tons 

bedding  meadow  hay. 

10.00 

100.00 

50 

cords 

wood  (cut). 

5.00 

250.00 

$8,918.19 


NEW   HAMPSHIRE   STATE   HOSPITAL. 


31 


PRODUCTS  OF  THE  FARM,  1914. 


670  bvmches 

asparagus. 

0.20 

$134.00 

8,000  pounds 

rhubarb, 

.02% 

200.00 

13,000  heads 

lettuce, 

.04 

520.00 

1,625  dozen 

cucumbers. 

.22 

357.50 

180  bushels 

pickling  cucumbers. 

1.25 

225.00 

560  bushels 

white  turnips, 

1.35 

756.00 

137  bushels 

rutabagas, 

1.40 

191.80 

32  tons 

winter  squash. 

25.00 

800.00 

390  bushels 

summer  squash, 

^0 

117.00 

85  bushels 

peas, 

1.00 

85.00 

370  bushels 

spinach. 

.50 

185.00 

365  bushels 

string  beans. 

.85 

310.25 

230  bushels 

shell  beans. 

1.60 

368.00 

150  bushels 

ripe  tomatoes. 

1.50 

225.00 

315  bushels 

green  tomatoes. 

1.35 

425.25 

5,000  dozen 

ears  corn, 

.15 

750.00 

2,000  heads 

early  cabbage. 

.08 

160.00 

8,000  heads 

late   cabbage. 

.09 

720.00 

400  heads 

red  cabbage, 

.12 

48.00 

375  heads 

cauliflower. 

.16 

60.00 

632  bushels 

beets. 

.50 

316.00 

340  bushels 

beet  greens. 

.15 

51.00 

1,500  heads 

early  celery. 

.14 

210.00 

5,250  heads 

late  celery. 

.22 

1,155.00 

730  bushels 

onions. 

1.00 

730.00 

380  bushels 

parsnips. 

1.00 

380.00 

22  bushels 

peppers. 

1.25 

27.50 

347  bushels 

carrots. 

.70 

242.90 

10  bushels 

parsley, 

.50 

5.00 

4.550  cakes 

ice. 

.15 

682.50 

75  tons 

hay. 

18.00 

1,350.00 

8  tons 

bedding. 

9.00 

72.00 

260  tons 

ensilage, 

8.00 

2,080.00 

50,472  quarts 

milk. 

.05 

2,523.60 

cows  sold. 

.... 

280.00 

barrels  sold, 

.... 

45.00 

pigs  sold. 

.... 

18.40 

1.453  pounds 

beef  consumed. 

.09 

130.77 

26.437  pounds 

pork  consumed. 

.1514 

4,097.74 

1  pair 

oxen  sold. 

175.00 

1 

wagon  sold. 

.... 

20.00 

part  of  old  harness  sold. 

.... 

1.00 

evaporator  sold, 



35.00 

Products   of  the  farm   at  Sunnyside, 
Products  of  Sunnyside  and  Main  Farms, 


$21,266.21 
10,032.74 

$31,298.95 


32 


NEW   HAMPSHIEE   STATE  HOSPITAL. 


PRODUCTS  OF  THE  FARM  AT  SUNNYSIDE,  1914. 


448  pounds 

chickens, 

211  gallons 

maple  syrup. 

6,976  quarts 

strawberries, 

2,240  quarts 

raspberries. 

224  quarts 

currants. 

91  barrels 

apples. 

lIO  bushels 

cider  apples. 

4,513  bushels 

potatoes. 

341/2  bushels 

beets, 

171/2  bushels 

carrots. 

16  bushels 

parsnips, 

15  bushels 

cucumbers. 

21  bushels 

peas. 

6  bushels 

tomatoes. 

23  bushels 

string   beans. 

18  bushels 

shell  beans, 

41  bushels 

turnips. 

300  heads 

lettuce, 

720  dozen 

sweet  corn, 

800  pounds 

rhubarb, 

100  bunches 

radishes, 

5,000  heads 

cabbage. 

38  tons 

hay, 

15  tons 

oat  fodder, 

2  tens 

corn  fodder, 

8,500  quarts 

milk. 

370  cakes 

ice. 

7,028  dozen 

eggs, 

42  bushels 

plums, 

18  cords 

wood    (cut). 

$0.20 

$89.60 

1.10 

232.10 

.19 

1,325.44 

.18 

403.20 

.10 

22.40 

1.00 

91.00 

.10 

11.00 

.70 

3,159.10 

.50 

17.25 

.70 

12.25 

1.00 

16.00 

1.80 

27.00 

1.00 

21.00 

1.50 

9.00 

.85 

19.55 

1.60 

28.80 

1.25 

51.25 

.04 

12.00 

.15 

108.00 

.021/2 

20.00 

.04 

4.00 

.09 

450.00 

18.00 

684.00 

8.00 

120.00 

8.00 

16.00 

.05 

425.00 

.15 

55.50 

.35 

2.459.80 

1.25 

52.50 

5.00 

90.00 

$10,032.74 

NEW   HAMPSHIRE  STATE  HOSPITAL. 


88 


FINANCIAL  STATEMENT  FOE  THE  BIENNIAL  PERIOD  END- 
ING AUGUST  31,  1914. 


Receipts. 


1913. 


1914. 


Board    of  private   patients $50, 

Board  of  town   patients    

Board  of  county  patients    

Income  from  John    Conant    Fund 

Income  from  Isaac  Adams  Fund   

Prom  Fund  for  Aid  of  Indigent  Insane 

Prom  Fund  for  Improvement  of  Grounds 

For  articles    sold    

For  articles  from    Industrial    Department 

For  articles  sold  other  institutions: 

Cheese    36.98 

Flour     47.00 

Sugar    28.29 

Meat    

Sundries    .... 

Horses    

From  Industrial  Department  

From  Corey  Hill   Hospital,   services   of  nurses 

From  other  sources   

From  refund  board  of  Henry  Rich 

From  maintenance    appropriation    

Total    receipts    for    year $239,429,91 

Total     expenditures     i        $239,429.91 


520.08 

$50,758.51 

634.84 

905.01 

16.99 

36.57 

256.00 

256.00 

162.00 

162.00 

,000.00 

8,000.00 

500.00 

500.00 

962.62 

3,373.92 

449.42 

1,153.83 

607.18 
287.07 


172,922.14 


27.88 
137.40 

39.86 
809.66 

54.22 
425.00 
222.30 

*342".i3 

643.66 

197,635.63 


$265,483.38 


GENERAL   STATEMENT. 


1913. 


1914. 


Average  number  of  patients 

Gross    expenditures     

Weekly  per  capita   cost 

Receipts  from  sales 

A  weekly  per  capita  of 

All  other  institution  receipts 

A  weekly   per   capita  of 

Average  weekly  per  capita  cost  to  state  for 
support  of  patients  and  maintenance  of 
property  after  crediting  all  income  for  year 


986.25 

$239,429.91 

4.66 

5,524.31 

.107 

60,983.16 

1.189 


1,086.00 

$265,483.38 

4.70 

6,244.07 

.11 

61,603.68 

1.091 


3.50 


34  NEW  HAMPSHIRE  STATE  HOSPITAL. 


ANALYSIS  OF  EXPENSES. 

Salaries,  Wages  and  Labor:  1913  .  1914 

Medical    Services $9,422.90  $9,679.02 

Ward    Services    (Male) 15,872.27  18,398.93 

(Female)    ...  20,611.74  21,445.06 

General   Administration 34,907.94  37,209.07 

Repairs  and  Improvements 7,181.56  10,114.48 

Farm,  Stable  and  Grounds 6,388.04  6,857.21 


Food: 

Butter    , 

Butterine    

Beans 

Bread  and  Crackers. . . 

Broma  and  Cocoa 

Coffee    

Cereals,  Rice  and  .Meal 

Cheese   

Eggs    

Flour   

Fish   

Fruit  (dried  and  fresh) 

Lard    

Meat    

Milk        

Molasses  and  Syrup. . . . 

Potatoes    *. 

Sugar    

Tea    

Vegetables 

Groceries    (sundries) .  . 


$94,384.45 

$103,703.77 

$7,256.14 

$9,081.56 

3,179.10 

2,402.50 

1,868.40 

714.73 

1,017.58 

631.31 

160.29 

65.47 

1,206.64 

1,495.48 

1,482.58 

1,007.12 

943.74 

1,399.13 

1,678.94 

1,558.56 

5,584.15 

4,416.79 

3,115.62 

2,235.52 

2,038.98 

426.27 

1,317.87 

1,506.25 

12,730.01 

16,045.81 

3,807.13 

5,891.05 

604.22 

300.93 

1,716.33 

758.35 

3,341.45 

5,199.05 

987.29 

1,068.18 

51.57 

16.00 

6,960.17 

8,161.21 

$61,048.20       $64,381.27 


NEW  HAMPSHIRE  STATE  HOSPITAL.  35 

Clothing  and  Clothing  Material: 

Boots,  Shoes  and  Kubbers $1,431.15  $1,509.28 

Clothing 2,291.09  5,-139.42 

Dry   Goods   for   Clothing   and 

Small   Wares.. 1,712.44  4,399.79 

Hats  and  Caps .  18.25 

Sundries    .  .  .• 31.43      


$5,490.36  $11,348.49 

Furnishings  : 

Beds,  Bedding,  Table  Linen..  $2,399.66  $4,135.95 

Brushes,  Brooms,  etc 178.25     

Carpets,  Rugs,  etc 271.92  97.30 

Crockery,  Glassware,  Cutlery. .  936.81  739.84 

Furniture  and  Upholstery 363.81  165.20 

Kitchen    Furnishings 3,176.52  810.48 

Sundries 1,887.44  2,082.36 


$9,214.41  $8,031.13 

Heat,  Light  and  Power: 

Coal    $15,268.25  $22,978.86 

Freight  on  Coal 3,414.71  12,256.10 

Gas    : 547.44  266.40 

Lamps    (electric) 581.99  554.25 

Oil    (illuminating) 93.42  173.01 

Oil    (lubricating) 235.67  255.89 

Refrigeration    27.55     

Sundries    8.00  86.59 


$20,177.03  $36,571.10 
Repairs  and  Improvements : 

Brick    $30.25  $10.25 

Cement,  Lime  and  Plaster ....              264.22  121 .0  4 

Doors,  Sashes,  etc 79.84     

Electrical  Work  and  supplies . .           1.629.43  898.03 


36  NEW   HAMPSHIRE   STATE   HOSPITAL. 

Hardware,  Iron,  Steel,  etc $964.10  $569.95 

Lumber   2,293.57  608.25 

Machinery,  etc 288.93     

Mechanics  and  Laborers  not  on 

Payroll 5,164.68  1,749.18 

Paints,  Oils,  Glass,  etc 2,014.22  1,914.88 

Plumbing,  Steam  Fitting  and 

Supplies    2,272.96  1,789.85 

Roofing  and  Materials 172.29  654.54 

Sundries    555.42  1,001.88 

/  . 

$15,729.91  $9,317.85 

Farm,  Stable  and  Grounds: 

Blacksmith  and  Supplies 493.79  290.05 

Carriages,    Wagons,    etc.,    and 

Repairs 127.45  975.00 

Cows    468.00  125.00 

Hens    483.65 

Fertilizers,  Vines,  Seeds,  etc.  .  2,465.19  1,171.61 

Gasoline    149.71  487.87 

Hay,   Grain,   etc 6,425.49  3,731.45 

Harnesses  and  Repairs 111.73  27.61 

Mechanics  and  Laborers  not  on 

Payroll    '   242.33  103.50 

Other  Live  Stock 117.00  35.00 

Motor  Truck  and  Supplies ....  337.13  4,266.47 
Tools,  Farm  Machines,  etc. . .  .  444.76  139.25 
Veterinary  Services  and  Medi- 
cines   261.99  106.04 

Sundries    1,589.98  580.33 

$13,234.55  $12,522.83 

Miscellaneous: 

Articles     Furnished     and 

Charged   $1,662.93  $1,596.38 

Books,  Periodicals,  etc 211.95  176.55 


NEW   HAMPSHIRE   STATE   HOSPITAL.  3? 

Chapel  Services  and  entertain- 
ments    $1,356.68  $1,168.49 

Deportation  of  Patients 24.21  5.36 

Freight,     Expressage     and 

Transportation   988.39  1,048.39 

Funeral   Expenses 449.00  276.00 

Laundry    Supplies 957.93  979.96 

Laundry   Soap 469.31  173.20 

Medical  Attendance   (extra) . .  102.56  155.00 
Medicines  and   Hospital   Sup- 
plies     2,281.71  2,515.38 

Postage 717.07  335.90 

Printing  and  Binding  Annual 

Report  251.96     

Patients'  Work  Shop. ... 2,073.43  3,967.85 

Return  of  Runaways 50.44  14.20 

Rental  of  Coal  Shed 600.01  500.00 

Soap    236.31  913.47 

Stationery  and  Office  supplies  1,643.52  372.34 
Training   School   Instructions, 

extra    65.10  269.77 

Travel  and  Expense  (officials)  234.03  10.30 

Telephone  and  Telegraph 355.48  310.14 

Tobacco   872.35  787.75 

Water 3,482.70  3,873.05 

Sundries    455.12  157.46 

Special  Legislative  Appropria- 
tion    Account     of     Joseph 

Burke 473.35     

Medical  Research  Work 135.46     

$20,151.00  $19,606.94 

Gross  Expenditures $239,429.91  $265,483.38 


38  XEW   HAMPSHIKE   STATE   HOSPITAL. 


REPORT    OF    THE    FINANCIAL    AGENT    OF    THE 
STATE  HOSPITAL. 

From  September  1,  1912,  to  August  31,  1913. 


Receipts. 


Balance  on  hand  Aug.  31,   1912  $10,607.63 

Received   from   Matured   Bonds: 

Boston  &  Maine $5,000.00 

Iowa  Loan  &  Trust  Co 1,000.00 

Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy 

Railroad    5,000.00 

Received  from  sale  75  shares 
State  National  Bank,  Bos- 
ton,  $200 15,000.00 

Received  from  Interest  and  Divi- 
dends     • 13,634.03 

Withdra^vn     Union     Trust     Co., 

French    legacy 181.84 

Received    Interest    from    Union 

Trust  Co.,  French  legacy..  31.97 


EXPENPITURES. 

Cash     paid     Treasurer     toward 

Support    Indigent    Patients         $8,000.00 
Paid  Treasurer  for  Improvement 

of   Grounds 500.00 

Treasurer  for  Income  Con- 
ant  fund 256.00 

Treasurer    for    Incoiue 

Adams   fund 162.00 


$39,847.84 


$50,455.47 


NEW    HAMPSHIRE    STATE   HOSPITAL.  39 

Treasurer  for  Income  War- 
ren K.  French $181.84 

Premium  on  surety  bond.  .  62.50 

Appropriations    by    vote 

trustees    .  . .  ^ 306.05 

For   35    Shares    Merchants 

National  Bank,  Boston.  .  7,506.25 

For  60    Shares   Chicago   & 

Northwestern  Eailroad.  .  8,272.50 

For  10,000  City  of  Nashua, 

N.  H.  bonds 10,000.00 

For   Insurance 130.00 

William  F.  Thayer,  Finan- 
cial  Agent 200.00 

Deposited  Union  Trust  Co.  Inter- 
est J.  P.  French  legacy 31.97 

$35,609.11 

Balance  Aug.   31,   1913 14,846.36 

$50,455.47 


40  NEW    HAMPSHIEE   STATE   HOSPITAL. 


EEPORT  OF  THE  CUSTODIAN  OF  THE  FUNDS  OF 
THE  STATE  HOSPITAL. 

From  September  1,  1913,  to  August  31, 1914. 


Receipts. 


Balance  on  hand  Aug.  31,  1913. .  $14,846.36 

Received  from  matured  bonds : 
Minneapolis  Bonds $3,000.00 

First  dividends  in  liquidation  50 
shares  Fitchburg  National 
Bank  Stock  at  160,  exchanged 
for  equal  number  shares 
Fitchburg  Bank  &  Trust  Co.  .  8,000.00 

Rawson  Trust  Fund 1,000.00 

Interest  and  dividends 15,813.39 

Withdrawn    Union    Trust    Co., 

French  legacy '       162.02 

Interest  received  on  French  leg- 
acy     27.84 

$28,003.25 


Expenditures. 

Cash     paid     Treasurer     toward 

support  of  indigent  patients..         $8,000.00 

Cash  paid  Treasurer  for  im- 
provement of  grounds 500.00 

Cash     paid     Treasurer     income 

Conant   fund *    256.00 

Cash     paid     Treasurer     income 

Adams   fund 162.00 


$42,849.61 


NEW    HAMPSHIRE    STATE   HOSPITAL.  41 

Cash     paid     Treasurer     account 

Warren  K.  French $162.02 

Fifty  shares  Fitchburg  Bank  & 
Trust  Co.,  first  dividend  in 
liquidation    8,000.00 

Deposited  Union  Trust  Co.  inter- 
est French  legacy 27.84 

Three  Port  of  Seattle  Bonds  and 

accrued  interest 2,906.55 

H.  Kern,  mortgage  loan 992.^3 

$21,007.24 

Balance  Aug.  31,  1914 21,842.37 


$42,849.61 


Permanent  Funds. 


The  following  were  the  several  permanent  funds  of  the 
hospital  on  the  first  day  of  September,  1914,  accompanied 
by  a  list  of  the  securities  in  which  they  are^ invested. 

ADAMS  FUND. 

(Gift  of  Isaac  Adams,  of  Sandwich.) 

New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  Railroad, 

Harlem  River  &  Port  Chester  Div.  bond $400.00 

City  of  Concord  (N.  H.)  bonds 600.00 

Ten  shares   Pittsburg,  Fort  Wayne  &  Chicago 

Railroad    1,000.00 

Ten  shares  Chicago  &  Northwestern  Railroad. . .  1,000.00 


$3,000.00 

BURROUGHS   FUND. 

(Legacy  of  Rev.  Charles  Burroughs,  D.  D.,  of  Portsmouth.) 

Northern  Pacific-Great  Northern  Railroad  bond 
(Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad, 
Joint  4s)    ■ $1,000.00 


42  NEW    HAMPSHIRE    STATE    HOSPITAL. 

CHANDLER  FUND. 

(Legacy  of  Abiel  Chandler,  of  Walpole.) 

Chicago      &      Northwestern      Railroad      bond 

(Milwaukee,  Lake  Shore  &  Western) $1,000.00 

New  York,   New   Haven   &   Hartford   Railroad 

bonds   2,000.00 

Old  Colony  Railroad  bond 1,000.00 

Boston  &  Lowell  Railroad  bond 5,000.00 

Concord  &  Montreal  Railroad  bonds 2,000.00 

Boston  &  Maine  Railroad  bonds 8,000.00 

Sixty-two  shares  Concord  &  Montreal  Railroad  6,200.00 

Ten  shares  Michigan  Central  Railroad 1,000.00 

Ten  shares  Pittsburg,  Fort  Wayne  &   Chicago 

Railroad    1,000.00 

One   share   Merchants   National   Bank,   Boston, 

Mass 100.00 

Twenty-five  shares  Northern  (N.  H.)   Railroad  2,500.00 

Two  shares  Chicago  &  Northwestern  Railroad.  .  200.00 

$30,000.00 

CONANT   FUND. 

(Legacy  of  John  Conant,  of  Jaffrey.) 

State  of  New  Hampshire  bonds ■ $4,000.00 

Concord  &  Montreal  Railroad  bonds 2,000.00 

Two  shares  Boston  &  Providence  Railroad ....  200.00 

Three  shares  Concord  &  Montreal  Railroad ....  300.00 

$6,500.00 

CREIGHTON  FUND. 

(Legacy  of  Mrs.  S.  E.  W.  Creighton,  of  Newmarket.) 

Boston  &  Providence  Railroad  bonds $1,000.00 

Boston  &  Maine  Railroad  bonds 2.000.00 


$3,000.00 


NEW    HAMPSHIEE    STATE   HOSPITAL.  43 

DAN  FORTH   FUND. 

(Legacy  of  Mary  Daiiforth,  of  Boscawen.) 
City  of  Concord  (N.  H.)  bonds $400.00 

FISK  FUND. 

(Legacy  of  Miss  Catherine  Fisk,  of  Keene.) 
Fisk  fund  held  in  trust  by  the  state. $26,378.43 

t'ULLEE  FUND. 

(Legacy  of  Mrs.  Peggy  Fuller,  of  Francestown.) 
Twenty  shares  Concord  &  Montreal  Railroad..       $2,000.00 

KENT    FUND. 

(Legacy  of  Moody  Kent,  of   Pittsfield.) 

Boston  &  Maine  Eailroad  bonds $12,000.00 

City  of  Concord  (N.  H.)  bonds 200.00 

Oregon  Short  Line  Railroad  bonds 5,000.00 

New  York,   New   Haven  &  Hartford   Railroad 

bonds   6,000.00 

Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad  bonds  5,000.00 

Chicago  &  Northwestern  Railroad  bonds 9,000.00 

Boston  &  Lowell  Railroad  bonds 10,000.00 

Concord  &  Montreal  Railroad  bonds 8,000.00 

City  of  Duluth   (Minn.)   bonds 7,000.00 

Northern  Pacific  Railway  bonds 5,000.00 

St.  Joseph  &  Grand  Island  Railroad  bonds ....  5,000.00 

Old  Colony  Railroad  bonds 12,000.00 

Northern  Pacific-Great  Northern  Railroad 
bonds  (Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Rail- 
road,  joint  4s) 13,000.00 

Union  Pacific  Railroad  bonds 1,000.00 

Port  of  Seattle,  Washington,  Water  Front  Im- 
provement bonds 3,000.00 

City  of  Nashua  (N.  H.)  bonds 10,000.00 


14  NEW    HAMPSHIRE   STATE   HOSPITAL. 

Fifty  shares  Pittsburg,  Ft.  Wayne  &  Chicago 
Railroad    $5,000.00 

Seven  shares  Union  National  Bank,  Lowell, 
Mass 700.00 

Sixteen  shares  Merchants  National  Bank,  Bos- 
ton, Mass 1,600.00 

One  hundred  shares  Michigan  Central  Railroad       10,000.00 

Seventy  shares  St.  Joseph  &  Grand  Island  Rail- 
road, first  preferred 7,000.00 

Twenty-five  shares  St.  Joseph  <fe  Grand  Island 

Railroad,   second  preferred 2,500.00 

Forty-two  shares  Northern  (N.  H.)   Railroad..         4,200.00 

Two  shares  Boston  &  Providence  Railroad 200.00 

Fifty  shares  Fitchburg  (Mass.)  Bank  and  Trust 

Co 5,000.00 

Thirty-one  shares  Chicago  &  Northwestern  Rail- 
road          3,100.00 

$50,500.00 

KIMBALL  FUND. 

(Legacy  of  Jacob  Kimball,  of  Hampstead.) 

Kimball  fund  held  in  trust  by  the  state  treas- 
urer  * $6,753.49 

LOW  FUND. 

(Legacy  of  Abiel  A.  Low,  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.) 

City  of  Columbus  (Ohio)  bonds '. $3,000.00 

City  of  Chicago  (111.)  bonds 2,000.00 

$5,000.00 

PENHALLOW    FUND. 

'  (Legacy  of  H.  Louise  Penhallow,  of  Portsmouth.) 
Concord  &  Montreal  Railroad  bond $1,000.00 


NEW   HAMPSHIKE   STATE   HOSPITAL.  46 

PIPEK  FUND. 

(Legacy  of  Khoda  C.  Piper,  of  Hanover.) 
One  share  Union  National  Bank,  Lowell,  Mass. .  $100.00 

PLUMMER  FUND. 

(Legacy  of  William  Plummer,  of  Londonderry.) 

New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  Railroad, 

Harlem  River  &  Port  Chester  Div.  bond $500.00 

RICE  FUND. 

(Legacy  of  Arabella  Rice,  of  Portsmouth.) 

Oregon  Short  Line  Railroad  bonds $5,000.00 

Old  Colony  Railroad  bonds. 3,000.00 

Chicago  &  Northwestern  Railroad  bond 1,000.00 

Old  Colony  Railroad  registered  bond 3,000.00 

Concord  &  Montreal  Railroad  bond 1,000.00 

Boston  &  Providence  Railroad  bond 1,000.00 

City  of  Cleveland  (Ohio)  bonds 2,000.00 

Union  Pacific  Railroad  bonds 5,000.00 

$21,000.00 

RUMFORD   FUND. 

(Legacy  of  the  Countess  of  Rumford,  of  Concord.) 

Boston  &  Maine  Railroad  bonds $5,000.00 

Concord  &  Montreal  Railroad  bonds 5,000.00 

Thirty   shares   Pittsburg,   Fort  Wayne   &   Chi- 
cago   Railroad 3,000.00 

Twenty  shares  Boston  &  Providence  Railroad..  2.000.00 

$15,000.00 


46  NEW    HAMPSHIKE    STATE    HOSPITAL. 


SHERMAN  FUND. 

(Legacy  of  Mrs.  Fanny  Sherman,  of  Exeter.) 

Old  Colony  Railroad  bond $1,000.00 

City  of  Cleveland  (Ohio)  bonds 3,000.00 

Northern  Pacific-Great  Northern  Railroad 
bond  (Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Rail- 
road, joint  4s) 1,000.00 

$5,000.00 

SMITH   FUND. 

(Legacy  of  Betsey  Smith,  of  Hanover.) 

New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  Railroad, 

Harlem  River  &  Port  Chester  Div.  bond $500.00 

SPALDING  FUND. 

(Legacy  of  Isaac  Spalding,  of  Nashua.) 

Concord  &  Montreal  Railroad  bonds. $6,000.00 

Boston  &  Providence  Railroad  bonds 2,000.00 

New  York,   New  Haven   &   Hartford   Railroad 

bond  1,000.00 

Old  Colony  Railroad  bond 1,000.00 

$10,000.00 

SPRING  FUND. 

(Received  from  sale  of  spring.) 

New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  Railroad, 

Harlem  River  &  Port  Chester  Div.  bond $100.00 

One  share  Northern  (N.  H.)  Railroad 100.00 

$200.00 


NEW    HAMPSHIRE    STATE    HOSPITAL.  47 

WALKER  FUND. 

(Legacy  of  Abigail  B.  Walker,  of  Concord.) 

New  York,   New  Haven  &  Hartford  Railroad, 

Harlem  River  &  Port  Chester  Div.  bond $1,500.00 

Boston  &  Maine  Railroad  bonds 5,000.00 

City  of  Concord  (N.  H.)  bond 1,000.00 

Old  Colony  Railroad  bonds 4,000.00 

Eight  shares  Merchants  National  Bank,  Boston, 

Mass 800.00 

Ten  shares  Northern  (N.  H.)  Railroad 1,000.00 

Seventeen  shares  Chicago  &  Northwestern  Rail- 
road      1,700.00 

$15,000.00 

WILLIAMS  FUND. 

(Gift  of  John  Williams,  of  Hanover.) 

Two   shares   Union   National   Bank   of   Lowell, 

Mass $200.00 

EAWSON  FUND. 

(Legacy  of  Charles  W.  Rawson,  of  Gilsum.) 

Mortgage  Loan  H.  Kern,  Graham  County,  Kan- 
sas           $1,000.00 

Total  amount  permanent  funds $304,031.92 


48  NEW   HAMPSHIRE   STATE  HOSPITAL. 

JOHN  P.  FRENCH  LEGACY. 

(Benefit  Warren  K.  French.) 

Union  Guaranty  Savings  Bank,  as  er  last  reort         $669.40 
Eeceived   interest 27.84 


$697.24 
Paid  treasurer  for  board  of  Warren  K.  French  162.02 


Balance   $535.22 

George  E.  Farrand, 

Custodian, 


TENTH    BIENNIAL  REPORT 


OF  THt: 


SUPERINTENDENT  AND 
TREASURER 


INDUSTRIAL  SCHOOL 


STATE   OF    NEW    HAMPSHIRE 


For  the   Period  Ending  August  31,   1914 


MANCHESTER,  N.  H. 

Printed  bt  John  b.  Clarkb  Co. 

191S 


OFFICERS. 

W.  C.  Morton Superintendent 

Thomas  Fox Assistant  Superintendent 

Mrs.  W.  C.  Morton Matron 

Noel  E.  Guillet,  M.  D Physician 

John  Sargent ; Farmer 

Eva  B.  Stevens Bookkeeper  and  Stenographer 

Mary  E.  Twombly Cleric 


SUPERINTENDENT'S  REPORT. 


I'o  the  Board  of  Control  : 

The  tenth  biennial  report  of  the  Industrial  School  for 
the  two  years  ending  August  31,  1914,  is  respectfully 
submitted. 

The  period  covered  by  this  report  has  been,  an  eventful 
one  in  many  ways  and  it  would  he  a  neglect  of  duty  on  my 
part  if  some  of  the  more  important  changes  which  have 
taken  place' were  not  recorded  here,  that  they  may  go  down 
in  the  history  of  the  school.  Among  the  most  important 
of  these  may  be  mentioned:  Removing  the  girls  from  the 
main  building,  favorable  changes  in  the  laws  concerning  the 
school,  the  closing  of  the  Riverside  Hosiery  Mills,  a  wood- 
working shop  opened,  a  poultry  plant  established  and  a  boy's 
band  organized.  A  few  words  concerning  each  of  these  will 
follow. 

The  new  building  for  girls  (provided  by  an  act  of  the 
1911  legislature),  which  was  well  under  way  at  the  time 
of  my  last  report,  was  opened  and  occupied  May  16,  1913, 
and  named  by  the  trustees,  Wilkins  Honie  for  Girls  (erected 
on  land  purchased  by  the  James  McKean  Wilkins  Fund). 
This  certainly  marks  a  new  era  in  the  Industrial  School. 

When  we  stop  to  consider  that  ever  since  the  school  was 
established  (1857)  both  boys  and  girls  have  been  cared  for 
under  one  roof,  making  conditions  such  that  the  work  of 
giving  children  proper  training  was  extremely  complex  and 
the  results  very  unsatisfactory,  our  state  may  well  be  proud 
of  the  beautiful,  substantial,  well  arranged  and  equipped 
building  it  now  has  for  her  unfortunate  girls  in  the  AYilkins 
Home. 

This  building  is  located  one-third  of  a  mile  north  of  the 
main   building  and   is   situated   on    a  high   elevation   facing 

3 


4  INDUSTRIAL   SCHOOL. 

the  Merrimack  river,  entirely  surrounded  by  beautiful  rural 
scenery.  It  is  really  an  institution  by  itself,  having  but 
little  to  do  with  the  boys'  school  except  under  the  same  su- 
pervision. Different  departments  are  arranged,  giving  the 
girls  an  opportunity  for  special  training  of  such  duties  as 
will  naturally  come  into  their  lives  in  after  years. 

It  is  hardly  necessary  to  mention  that  under  the  condi- 
tion the  girls  now  live  they,  as  a  whole,  are  very  contented 
and  happy,  and  it  is  interesting  to  note  the  astonishment 
a  **'new  girl"  shows  on  entering  the  home  and  her  happy 
disappointment  in  not  finding  bars  and  grills. 

The  attics  which  were  finished  in  the  early  part  of  the 
present  year  under  your  direction,  provide  additional  room 
should  the  population  of  the  girls  require  it. 

Soon  after  the  law  was  passed  by  the  legislature  of  1913 
providing  for  a  parole  officer,  it  was  the  desire  of  the  trus- 
tees that  I  should  accept  that  position  together  with  the 
duties  of  superintendent. 

What  degree  of  success  this  department  has  attained  can 
best  be  judged  by  those  who  have  so  kindly  taken  these 
children  into  their  homes  as  well  as  those  who  live  in  the 
immediate  vicinity  where  these  probationers  have  been 
placed.  Our  records  show  that  over  eighty  out  of  the  total 
of  ninety-two  on  probation  September  1,  1914,  are  doing 
well. 

For  the  most  part,  children  sixteen  years  of  age  and  over 
have  been  paroled,  most  of  whom  are  earning  wages.  No 
child  has  been  released  unless  provided  with  work  or  given 
an  opportunity  to  attend  school.  The  age  and  school  grade 
of  each  individual  usually  determines  which  it  shall  be. 

Since  all  children  are  committed  here  until  they  are 
twenty-one  years  of  age,  the  question  is  often  asked,  "How 
long  are  they  to  stay  in  the  school  and  what  determines  the 
time  that  they  may  be  released  on  probation?"  This  is  an- 
swered in  no  better  way  than  l)y  the  following  extract  taken 
from  the  letter  which  is  sent  to  the  parents  or  guardian  of 
each  child  soon  after  their  commitment: 


1.  \:^h^M 


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■P 

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»  ~   1    1 

1 

IXDUSTKIAL    SCHOOL.  5 

'  ^*^We  have  received  your  son  who  was  committed  to  the 

Industrial  School  at  Manchester,  N.  H.,  on  the day  of 

191 — in  accordance  with  the  law  of  the  state.     By 

order  of  the  court  he  will  remain  in  the  care  and  subject  to 
the  control  of  the  school  until  he  is  twenty-one  years  of 
age.  The  length  of  detention  in  the  school  depends  upon 
conduct.  When  such  time  shall  have  elapsed  that  the  teach- 
ers and  officers  of  the  school  have  had  opportunity  to  study 
the  child  and  good  reports  as  to  conduct  and  character  are 
forthcoming,  his  name  will  be  submitted  to  the  Board  of 
Control  for  their  consideration  for  release  on  probation.  If 
the  home  is  a  proper  one  and  it  seems  probable  that  the  par- 
ents can  control  him,  he  will  be  allowed  to  go  home.  On 
the  other  hand  if  on  investigation  it  is  found  that  the  home 
is  not  a  proper  one,  he  will  be  placed  in  some  home  which 
the  school  will  select.  In  either  case,  he  will  under  the  law 
remain  in  the  control  of  the  school  until  21  years  of  age 
and  until  then  can  at  any  time  be  recalled  to  the  school." 

A  very  careful  daily  record  of  the  deportment  of  each 
child  is  kept  from  the  day  of  commitment  and  they  are 
fully  informed  and  given  to  understand  that  a  record  of 
good  conduct  is  much  to  be  desired  and  in  their  favor.  The 
average  time  spent  in  the  school  of  those  placed  on  proba- 
tion during  the  past  two  years  was  2  years  and  7  months. 

The  homes  of  parents  and  families  in  which  children  have 
been  placed  have  in  all  cases  been  carefully  investigated. 
This  has  been  done  by  myself  personally  except  in  a  few 
cases,  where  I  have  had  the  assistance  of  some  volunteer  co- 
worker whose  judgment  in  such  cases,  is  dependable. 

It  has  been  my  purpose  to  visit  paroled  children  as  often 
as  I  felt  it  necessary.  No  stated  number  of  visits  have  been 
arranged  for,  some  requiring  very  little  supervision,  while 
others  may  be  visited  frequently  with  excellent  results.  In 
several  cases  visiting  the  child  just  at  the  proper  time  has 
saved  him  from  leaving  his  place  or  having  him  returned  to 
the  school. 


a 


INDUSTHIAL   SCHOOL. 


The  following-up  system  is  very  important  and  should 
not  be  neglected  or  overlooked.  In  general,  all  children  are 
expected  to  report  by  letter  or  in  person  once  a  month  for 
a  continued  time  until  excused.  This  necessitates  additional 
office  work  as  a  reply  is  made  to  each  letter  received. 

TABLE    SHOWING    WHEREJABQUTS    OF    CHILDREN    ON     PROBATION 
9ESPTBMBER  1,  1913. 


Boys. 

Girls. 

Total. 

On   probation    with    rela,tives   or   friends   attending: 

1 
5 
4 

0 

0 
3 
0 
0 

13 

15 

On  probation  with  families,  earning  wages '           6 

On  probation   with   relatives,   earning  wages 17 

On  probation  with  relatives,  to  live  in  other  statesi 

not  visited    ■          2 

On  probation  elsewhere  earning  wages  and  finding, 

own   board    !           2 

Left  home  or  place  and  whereabouts  unknown 0 

In  other  correctional   institutions. .                  .     .        i           2 

11 
21 

2 

2 
3 
2 

In  United  States  Army :           1 

1         44 

1 
57 

TABLE     SHOWING     WHERBABOUTtS    OF     CHILDREN     ON"    PROBATION 
SEPTEMBER   1,    1914. 


Boys. 


Girls.        Total. 


On    probation    with   relatives    or   friends   attendinigi 

school    j  14 

On  probation  with  families,  earning  wages ;  9 

On   probation   with   relatives,   earning  wages 31 

On  probation  with  relatives,  to  live  in  other  states 

not  visited    !  2 

On  probation  elsewhere  earning  wages  and  flndingj 

own   board    '  2 

Left  home  or  place  and  whereabouts  unknown j  3 

In  other  correctional   institutions 1 

In  United  States  Army j  1 

On  probation  in  hospital  for  treatment j  2 


65 


27 


92 


INDUSTRIAL    SCHOOL.  7 

The  equipment  here  does  not  provide  for  a  semi-prison 
where  these  incorrigibles  could  be  segregated,  and  1  would 
in  no  way  recommend  the  construction  of  any  such  arrange- 
ment, for  the  most  good  can  result  in  keeping  this  a  school  for 
juvenile  offenders  and  treating  them  as  such  and  not  as 
prisoners. 

I  believe  that  the  law  passed  at  the  last  legislature  con-, 
eerning  incorrigibles  in  the  Industrial  School  will  in  time 
prove  very  effective  and  raise  the  standard  of  the  school,  so 
that  it  will  be  looked  upon  as  an  institution  for  juveniles 
without  the  sting  of  the  old  time  Reform  School  of  half  a 
century  ago,  where  all  inmates  were  classed  as  BAD. 

The  Riverside  Hosiery  Mill,  which  for  many  years  was  a 
special  feature  along  industrial  lines  here,  has  been  abolished 
and  the  ten-horse  power  motor  which  furnished  power  to  run 
the  knitting  machines,  etc.,  now  runs  the  three  wood-work- 
ing machines  which  occupy  the  eastern  end  of  the  shop. 

In  a  meagre  way  a  carpenter  shop  has  been  started  in 
which  several  boys  may  be  instructed  and  taught  to  do  things 
that  will  be  very  much  to  their  advantage  in  future  life. 
The  equipment  at  present  consists  of  one  36-inch  band  saw, 
one  tipping  table  saw,  one  24-inch  pony  planer  and  a  few 
bench  tools.  More  tools  and  benches  are  needed  to  make 
the  outfit  complete.  When  this  room  is  properly  equipped, 
valuable  training  for  the  boys  will  result. 

In  the  spring  of  1913,  poultry  raising  was  started.  This 
year  three  hundred  and  fifty  chickens  were  hatched.  A 
house  16  ft.  wide  by  100  ft.  long,  to  be  built  on  plans  ap- 
proved by  the  poultry  department  of  the  state  college,  is 
under  construction  by  the  carpentry  class. 

A  boys^  band  was  organized  February,  1913,  under  the 
leadership  of  William  F.  Hart  of  Manchester,  with  the  fol- 
lowing instruments:  1  Eb  cornet,  6  Bb  cornets,  4  altos, 
2  Bb  baritones,  2  Bb  basses,  2  tubas,  3  trombones,  1  bass 
drum,  2  snare  drums,  and  1  pair  of  cymbals.  Such  boys 
were  selected  who  gave  evidence  of  some  musical  ability  or 
idea  of  music,  i.  e.,  they  could  beat  time,  whistle  some  fa- 


8  INDUSTRIAL   SCHOOL. 

miliar  tunes  and  some  could  sing.  The  average  age  of  the 
lads  was  14  years  and  5  months. 

The}'  have  learned  to  play  well,  and  have  appeared  in 
public  several  times  with  a  great  deal  of  credit  to  themselves 
and  to  the  institution. 

The  good  influence  which  the  band  has  had  has  been  of 
inestimable  value  not  only  to  its  members  but  to  the  entire 
school. 

SCHOOL    OF    LETTERS. 

Work  along  these  lines  has  been  continued  as  during  the 
previous  two  years.  With  about  one  hundred  boys,  rang- 
ing in  age  from  8  to  20  years,  registered  under  three  teach- 
ers and  with  30  to  35  girls  in  the  care  of  one  teacher,  con- 
ditions are  not  unlike  those  found  in  an  ungraded  school. 
It  seldom  happens  that  a  child  committed  to  the  Industrial 
School  is  up  to  his  grade,  but  is  found  backward  to  an  alarm- 
ing extent,  and  not  a  few  cases  are  feeble-minded. 

With  these  conditions  rapid  progress  cannot  be  made,  but 
with  tried  and  true  teachers,  experienced  in  handling  just 
this  type  of  child,  good  results  are  obtained  and  many  chil- 
dren who  have  left  the  school  testify  that  it  was  at  the  In- 
dustrial School  they  received  such  instructions  as  inspired 
them  to  get  a  better  education  than  they  otherwise  would 
have  obtained  had  they  never  been  sent  here. 

At  the  closing-day  exercises  actual  work  done  in  the  dif- 
ferent rooms  throughout  the  year  was  shown,  giving  the  pub- 
lic and  the  parents,  and  especially  the  parents,  an  opportunity 
to  judge  what  progress  their  children  were  making. 

Should  the  number  of  pupils  materially  increase,  it  would 
seem  advisable  to  employ  more  teachers. 

SLOYD. 

The  work  done  in  this  room  has  been  carried  on  some- 
what differently  than  heretofore.  A  special  class  for  the 
backward  children  has  been  organized  giving  them  such 
work  as  seems  best  suited  to  their  ability.     This  gives  the 


INDUSTRIAL   SCHOOL.  9 

child  an  opportunity  to  get  a  start  and  awakens  his  ideas, 
at  the  same  time  building  a  foundation  for  the  advanced 
work  which  he  will  take  later,  while  a  regular  class  has  been 
held  each  day  for  boys  who  are  up  to  their  grade.  The  in- 
terest and  advancement  shown  in  both  classes  has  been  very 
pronounced,  and  to  note  the  effort  each  individual  puts  into 
his  work  to  make  the  most  of  his  opportunity,  is  most  grat- 
ifying. 

While  no  attempt  is  made  here  to  teach  a  trade,  yet  to  ob- 
serve the  ability  of  a  boy  who  has  taken  a  course  in  sloyd 
in  comparison  with  one  who  has  not  is  very  marked.  He 
has  been  taught  the  different  kinds  of  wood,  different  kinds 
of  tools  and  their  uses  and  to  make  various  models  from  his 
own  drawings. 

MASONRY.  ' 

The  class  in  masonry  has  manifested  the  same  interest 
as  usual  and  the  subway  into  the  boiler  room  and  the  well- 
layed  cement  service  yard  in  the  rear,  and  the  broad  walk  at 
the  north  of  the  Wilkins  Home  for  Girls,  together  with  many 
other  workmanlike  jobs,  about  the  school,  are  all  excellent 
specimens  of  their  thoroughness  of  work,  making  permanent 
improvements  to  the  property  here  and  at  the  same  time  giv- 
ing the  boys  excellent  training. 

THE    FARM. 

The  training  the  boys  receive  on  the  farm  is  by  far  the 
most  important  of  all.  No  other  industry  can  be  made  of 
so  much  value  to  so  great  a  number  of  our  boys  as  that  of 
farming.  Everything  pertaining  to  this  line  of  work  ap- 
peals to  the  heart  of  every  boy  and  it  is  very  interesting  to 
note  with  what  zeal  and  enthusiasm  they  enter  into  it.  Our 
herd  of  cows  is  not  satisfactory  and  should  be  improved.  I 
recommend  the  purchase  of  ^  some  thoroughbred  animals  that 
we  may  begin  at  once  to  build  up  a  herd  which  will  be  profit- 
able to  own. 


10  INDUSTRIAL   SCHOOL. 

The  field  and  garden  crops  for  the  past  two  seasons  have 
been  abundant.  The  fruit  trees  have  been  pruned  and 
sprayed  by  a  class  of  boys  under  the  direction  of  an  experi- 
enced man,  using  such  methods  as  recommended  by  the  New 
Hampshire  State  College.  They  are  now  in  a  good  growing 
condition  and  the  harvest  will  be  satisfactorily  large  and  of 
good  quality. 

East  of  the  AVilkins  Home  for  Girls  an  orchard  was  set 
this  spring  consisting  of  170  apple,  20  plum,  TOO  peach,  20 
cherry  and  30  pear  trees.  West  of  Kiverview  cottage  in  a 
well-arranged  plot  has  been  planted  strawberries,  currants, 
gooseberries,  blackberries,  raspberries  and  grapes.  The  cul- 
tivation and  picking  of  berries  and  early  vegetables  has  fur- 
nished excellent  employment  for  the  smaller  boys.  The  work 
of  clearing  and  stumping  the  new  land  on  the  Wilkins  lot 
is  being  carried  on  as  time  will  allow. 

COTTAGE   SYSTEM   VS.    CONOrtEGATE   PLAN. 

The  picture  on  the  opposite  page  shows  a  group  of  twenty- 
eight  small  boys  assembled  in  front  of  Kiverview  cottage 
(originally  built  for  a  hospital)  which  is  now  their  home. 
The  boys  are  by  themselves  and  share  one  another's  sports 
and  pleasures  to  a  marked  degree.  The  parental  advice, 
kind  words  and  precepts  of  home  discipline  given  them  by 
their  master  and  matron,  who  are  really  their  foster  parents 
while  here,  sink  deeply  into  the  hearts  of  these  lads,  for  the 
true  family  spirit  exists  and  they,  being  segregated  from  the 
older  and  larger  boys,  the  bad  influence  of  whom  in  a  ma- 
jority of  cases  are  sure  to  be  exerted,  is  eliminated. 

There  is  another  equally  large  group  of  little  fellows  who 
are  fully  as  worthy  of  being  placed  under  as  good  conditions 
and  demand  the  same  consideration,  but  under  the  present 
arrangement  they  are  obliged  to  mingle  and  associate  with 
boys  who  are  nearly  twice  their  age  and  remain  in  the  main 
building  on  the  congregate  plan. 

Repeating  what  I  recommended  in  my  report  two  years 
ago  that  the  cottage  or  family  plan  sliould  be  extended,  and 


INDUSTRIAL    SCHOOL.  11 

trusting  the  work  already  demonstrated  by  this  method  has 
met  with  your  approval,  I  urge  you  to  ask  the  legislature 
of  1915  for  an  appropriation  for  at  least  one  cottage  for 
boys. 

IMPROVEMENTS. 

Sueli  improvements  and  repairs  have  been  made  from 
time  to  time  as  seenxed  most  necessary. 

Both  barns,  all  the  outside  woodwork  of  the  main  building, 
annex  and  hosiery  mill  have  been  painted.  All  the  upper 
rooms  except  the  sleeping  hall  formerly  occupied  by  the 
girls  have  been  thoroughly  renovated  for  the  occupany  of 
teachers  and  officers.  These  rooms  were  much  needed,  but 
were  not  available  for  these  purposes  until  the  new  building 
for  girls  was  opened. 

Scrub  floors  in  the  front  part  of  the  main  building  have 
been  dressed  and  filled,  adding  very  much  to  the  appearance 
of  the  offices,  rooms  and  halls. 

The  two  rooms  formerly  used  for  laundry  purposes  by  the 
girls  have  been  remodeled;  one  made  into  a  store  room  and 
the  other  into  a  milk  room. 

Convenient  sorting  boxes  have  been  placed  in  the  girls' 
dining  hall,  which  is  now  used  for  mending,  sorting  and 
marking  boys'  clothing. 

A  six-inch  drain  pipe  has  been  laid  to  the  refrigerator 
room,  so  that  the  drip,  from  the  ice  box  is  properly  taken 
care  of  instead  of  settling  into  the  ground  as  heretofore. 

Steam  from  the  main  line  has  been  put  into  the  harness 
room. 

Modern  self-flushing  stools  have  been  installed  in  the 
place  of  the  old  style  flush  troughs  in  the  toilets  off  the  boys' 
yard. 

The  old  line  of  electric  light  poles  has  been  removed  from 
the  front  driveway  and  a  new  line  has  been  set  down  the 
back  road. 

The  Prince  house,  so  called,  has  been  wired  for  electric 
lights. 


12  INDUSTRIAL   SCHOOL. 

HEALTH. 

The  general  health  of  the  children  has  been  excellent. 
There  were  several  cases  of  measles  during  the  summer  of 
1913,  but  by  having  plenty  of  room  in  the  hospital  ward 
an  epidemic  was  avoided.  Such  minor  operations  as  were 
recommended  by  the  school  physician  were  performed,  most 
numerous  of  which  have  been  the  removal  of  adenoids  and 
tonsils.  One  case  of  tuberculosis  was  diagnosed  and  the 
patient  was » transferred  to  Notre  Dame  Hospital. 

Dr.  C.  H.  MacRury  of  Manchester  still  continues  to  look 
after  the  dental  work,  which  is  very  essential. 

There  are  many  children  who  come  to  us  having  defective 
eyesight;  they  are  taken  to  an  optician  for  examination 
and  treatment.  It  would  be  an  excellent  idea  if  arrange- 
ments were  made  to  have  a  regular  oculist  employed  that  all 
children  may  receive  such  direct  attention  as  may  be  neces- 
sary. 

AMUSEMENTS. 

Entertainments  of  various  kinds  have  been  arranged,  and 
the  interest  shown  by  those  taking  part  in  amateur  per- 
formances has  been  very  commendable.  All  our  "home 
shows"  have  met  with  much  favor  by  the  audience. 

Rides,  walks  and  picnics  have  been  a  source  of  enjoyment 
for  the  girls,  while  games  of  baseball  and  football  with  teams 
from  the  city  on  Saturday  afternoons  have  been  a  favorite 
pastime  for  the  boys. 

Holidays  have  been  celebrated  in  much  the  same  manner 
as  by  children  living  in  any  community. 

NEEDS   OF   THE   SCHOOL. 

A  cottage  for  boys. 

Boys'  and  officers'  kitchens  remodeled. 

New  ceiling  in  large  schoolroom. 

A  printing  plant  for  boys. 

A  buzz  planer  and  more  bench  tools  for  the  carpenter  shop. 

A  thoroughbred  herd  of  cows. 

A  coal  pocket  for  steam  coal. 


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13 


STATISTICS  CONCERNING  INMATES. 

TABLE  I. 


Boys. 


Number  committed  to  institution  since 
its  commencement  

Number  of  inmates    in    school    August 

31,    1912     \ 108 

Received. 

Number  committed  during  year  end- 
ing August  31,   1913 '. 71 

Number  returned  from  probation...  8 

Number  runaways  recaptured 53 

Releaffcd. 

On  probation    35 

Transferred  to  Hillsborough  County 

jail 1 

Runaways    61 

Discharged  at  expiration  of  sentence  5 

Discharged  honorably 1 

Discharged  by  order  of  Court   (held 

for  trial) 14 

Average   number   in   school   for   past 

year    109.2 

Number  of  inmates  in  school  August 

31,   1913    123 

Received. 

Number  committed  during  year  end- 
ing August   31,   1914 62 

Number  returned  from  probation...  10 

Number  runaways  recaptured 13 

Number  returned  from  Sacred  Heart 

Hospital 0 

Number  returned  from  Hillsborough 

County  jail   1 

Released. 

On  probation   43 

Transferred  to  Hillsborough  County 

Farm 0 

Transferred  to  Sacred  Heart  Hospital  0 

Transferred  to  Notre  Dame  Hospital  2 

Runaways 13 

Discharged  at  expiration  of  sentence  6 

Discharged  by  order  of  court   (held 

for  trial)    28 

Average   number  in   school   for  past 

^.year    113  5 

Number  of  inmates  in  school  Aug-ust  I 

31,   1914    ..J       117 


Girls. 


30 


16 
1 
0 


11 


27 


Total. 


2,845. 
138 

87 

9 

53 

46 


0 
0 

1 

0 

1 

61 

6 

1 

2 

16 

30.3 

139.5 

33 

156 

27 
9 
2 

89 
19 
15 

1 

1 

0 

1 

70 


2 

2 

1 

1 

0 

2 

2 

15 

1 

7 

7 

35 

33 

146.5 

32 

149 

14 


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TABLE  II. 
Showing  Ages  When  Committed  During  Past  Two  Years. 


Boys. 


Total. 


Seven  years  .  . 
Eight  years  .  . 
Nine  years  ... 
Ten  years  .... 
Eleven  years  . . 
Twelve  years  . 
Thirteen  years 
Fourteen  years 
Fifteen  years  .  . 
Sixteen  vears  . 


2 
3 
3 
10 
11 
12 
19 
26 
19 
28 

133 


TABLE  III. 
Showing  Term  ok  (  ommitment  for  Past  Two  Years.* 


Girls. 


Total. 


Six  years  

Five  years 

Fonr  3'^ears,  six  months. 

Fonr  years   

Three  years 

Two  years 

One  year   

Six    months    

Trial    

Until  seventeen     , 

lentil  eighteen     , 

T'ntil  nineteen     

Fntil  twentv-one    , 


133 


43 


0 

1 

1 

3 

0 

3 

0 

1 

1 

4 

2 

6 

.5 

1 

6 

6 

1 

7 

2 

0 

3 

1 

0 

1 

47 

10 

57 

1 

t            0 

1 

2 

0 

2 

6 

0 

6 

.56 

:     -27 

83 

176 


*  Sin  CO    April    24,    1913,    all    sentences   are    for   minority    (Public   Acts    And 
Joint  Resolutions  1913). 


INDUSTRIAL   SCHOOL. 


15 


TABLE  IV. 


Showing  Technical  Causes  of  Commitments  During  Past  Two 

Years. 


Stub'borness    

Larceny     

Truancy   

Breaking-  and  entering- 

Street  walker    

Fornication    

Obstructing  railroad 

Breaking-,  entering-  and  larceny . . 
Taking  and  using  horse  without 

consent  of  owner 

Assault     

Incorrigible    

Delinquent 

Wilfully  and  maliciously  shooting 

heifer    

Interfering  with   railroad   switch 

Growing  up  in  crime 

Forging  check   


Boys. 


24 

58 
9 

14 
0 
0 
2 

18 

1 
1 
0 
2 

1 

1 
1 
1 


133 


Girls. 


25 
7 
1 
0 
3 
6 
6 
0 

0 
0 
1 
0 

0 
0 
0 
0 


43 


Total. 


49 

65 

10 

14 

3 

6 

2 

18 

1 
1 
1 
2 

1 
1 
1 
1 


176 


TABLE  V. 

Showing  Counties  from  Which  Commitments  Were  ;Made  Past 
Two  Years. 


Rockingham 
Strafford  . . . 
Belknap  .  .  . . 
Carroll  .  .  ,  ,  , 
^[errimack  . 
Hillsborough 
Cheshire  .  .  . 
Sullivan     . , . 

Grafton    

Coos    


16 


INDUSTKIAL   SCHOOL. 


TABLE  VI. 

Showing   Nativity   of   Pakents   of   Children   Admitted  to  In- 
dustrial  School   During   Past  Two  Years. 


Boys. 

Girls. 

Total. 

Both     parents     born     in     United 
States  

43 
40 

16 

7 

2 

6 

6 

1 
12 

14 
14 

4 

2 

0 

1 

1 

'l 
6 

57 

Both  parents  foreign  born 

Father  foreign  born  and  mother 

native  born    

Mother   foreign   born   and   father 

native  born  .  . ; 

Father   native   born    and    mother 

unknown   

54 

20 

9 

2 

Mother    native    born    and    father 
unknown    

7 

Mother  foreign  born   and    father 
unknown   

7 

Father  foreign  born  and   mother 

unknown    

Both  parents  unknown 

2 

18 

133 

43 

176 

TABLE  VII. 

Showing  Xativity  of  Children   Committed  During  Past  Two 

Years. 


Born  in  United  States. 

Foreign  born 

Unknown     


Boys. 

Girls. 

Total. 

119 

38 

157 

12 

5 

17 

2 

0 

2 

133 

43 

176 

INDUSTRIAL  SCHOOL. 


17 


TABLE  VIII. 

Showing  Domestic  Conditions  of  the  176  Children  Committed 

TO  THE  Industrial  School  During  the  Two  Years 

Ending  August  31,  1914. 


Boys. 


Girls. 


Had  parents    

Had  no  parents   

Had  father 

Had  mother  

Had  stepfather   

Had  stepmother   

Had  an  intemperate  father   

Had  an  intemperate  mother    

Had  both  parents  intemperate 

Had  parents  separated 

Had  attended  church   

Had  never  attended  church   

Had  not  attended  school  within  1  year 
Had  not  attended  school  within  2  years 

Had  been  arrested  before 

Had  been  inmates  of  other  institutions. 

Had  used  liquor 

Had  used  tobacco    

Was  employed  when  arrested 

Was  idle  when  arrested 

Was  attending  school  when  arrested 

One  or  both  parents  had  been  arrested . . 


92 

27 

3 

1 

104 

32 

118 

36 

17 

5 

2 

2 

64 

19 

22 

2 

16 

1 

25 

9 

123 

42 

10 

1 

33 

11 

21 

8 

82 

22 

28 

10 

21 

6 

82 

4 

17 

13 

103 

28 

13 

2 

30 

12 

The  school  has  been  very  fortunate  in  having  Miss  Ethel 
L.  Kingsley  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.,  Sisters  Angela  and  Mercedes 
of  the  Convent  of  the  Sisters  of  Mercy,  Eev.  Bros.  Henry 
and  Paulin  of  the  Cathedral  Parish  and  Mr.  J.  E.  Suther- 
land of  the  y.  M.  C.  A.,  regularly  Sunday  mornings  to  give 
the  girls  and  boys  instructions  in  their  religious  creeds. 

Daughters  of  Veterans,  Mary  J.  Buncher  Tent,  No.  2,  of 
Manchester,  on  May  30,  1913,  presented  Wilkins  Home  for 
Girls  a  beautiful  silk  flag,  and  again  on  May  30,  1914,  a 
like  gift  was  given  by  the  same  organization  to  Riverview 
Cottage.  These  emblems  were  presented  on  days  most  fitting, 
giving  such  lessons  of  patriotism  to  our  children  that  will 
long  be  remembered. 


18  INDUSTRIAL   SCHOOL. 

The  Y.  M.  C.  A.  of  Manchester  has  kindly  remembered 
the  school  at  each  week-end  by  furnishing  an  abundance  of 
current  literature.  This  feature  alone  is  looked  forward  to 
by  all  t^8  boys  and  is  a  big  asset  to  the  reading  room. 

Mrs.  Armenia  White  of  Concord  has  continued  her  usual 
Christmas  remembrance  to  the  children  by  sending  a  generous 
amount  of  candy  and  oranges. 

Father  Brophy  of  Penacook  donated  framed  pictures  for 
the  girls'  room,  and  G.  H.  Warren  of  Manchester  a  portrait 
of  himself  for  the  office  at  Wilkins  Home  for  Girls. 

W.  C.  Landis,  State  Missionary,  of  Lakeport,  has  fur- 
nished several  boxes  of  magazines,  etc.,  as  well  as  music 
sheets  for  eventful  days  of  the  year. 

Generous  boxes  of  Christmas  candy  have  been  contributed 
by  Dr.  C.  H.  MacEury  of  Manchester. 

The  girls  have  the  pleasure  of  enjoying  reading  "Modern 
Priscilla"  as  a  gift  from  Mary  E.  Twombly,  while  Dr.  G.  M. 
Davis  has  given  them  a  two  years'  subscription  to  the 
"Magnificat." 

A  large  picture  of  Sir  Galahad  was  presented  to  the  boys 
of  Riverview  Cottage  by  Miss  Anna  Wilcox  and  Miss  Emma 
F.  Newton  of  Westboro,  Mass. 

Free  tickets  furnished  by  Col.  Arthur  E.  Clarke,  President 
of  the  Young  Men's  Club  of  the  Franklin-street  Church,  and 
Mrs.  George  H.  Warren,  President  of  the  Federation  of 
Women's  Clubs,  to  several  lectures  and  concerts  in  the  city 
were  much  enjoyed  by  the  boys. 

The  musical  concert  given  the  boys  by  Alcide  St.  Pierre's 
orchestra  was  greatly  enjoyed  as  well  as  the  evening's  enter- 
tainment for  the  girls  given  by  Mrs.  Hazel  Chandler  Parks. 

Mrs.  Mabel  Daley,  assisted  by  several  friends  from  Man- 
chester, furnished  entertainment  for  both  boys  and  girls, 
which  was  very  pleasing. 

By  the  generosity  of  the  publishers  the  following  periodi- 
cals have  been  received: 

The  Christian  Science  Monitor. 
New  Hampshire  Gazette. 


INDUSTEIAL   SCHOOL.  19 

Our  Dumb  Animals. 

Cheshire  Patriot  and  Keene  Free  Press. 
The  New  Hampshire  Patriot. 
Benziger's  Catholic  Sentinel. 
For  all  these  acts  of  kindness  from  our  friends,  sincere 
thanks  are  extended. 

To  the  Board  of  Control,  I  desire  to  express  my  apprecia- 
tion and  thanks  for  your  words  of  counsel,  and  record  the 
many  kind  considerations  tendered  me. 

W.  C.  MORTON, 

Superintendent 


TREASURER'S  REPORT. 


FINANCIAL  STATEMENT. 

(For  the  biennial  period  ending  August  31,  1914.) 

Receipts. 

1913.  1914. 

Balance  in  superintendent's  hands  ....      $1,739.38  $1,755.19 

For  maintenance 27,635.49  28,031.17 

salaries   14,185.94  16,180.84 

clerical    281.18  777.00 

new  building  for  girls 52,202.17  5,971.87 

farm  sales,  etc 1,685.66  811.61 

From  Manchester  Stocking  Co 220.60      

Amoskeag  Savings  Bank   (Pen- 
hallow  Fund)    110.80      

Mechanics  Savings  Bank  (Moody 

Kent  Fund) 45.00 

Total   $98,061.22  $53,572.18 

Dishursements. 

Salarlfes     -. $14,185.94  $16,180.34 

Maintenance     29,321.15  28,031.17 

Clerical   281.18  777.00 

New  building  for  girls 52,202.17  5,971.87 

Repairs,  needles,  etc.,  in  hosiery 204.79      

Books     110.80      

State  Treasurer 2,566.80 

Bryant  &  Stratton  Business  College 45.00 


Total $96,806.08   $58,572.18 

Balance     $1,755.19        

20 


INDUSTRIAL   SCHOOL. 


21 


ANALYSIS    OF    EXPENSES    FOR    THE    BIBNNIAiL    PERIOD    ENDING 
AUGUST  31.  1914. 


1913. 
Pood: 

Bread  and  crackers ^85.31 

Butter  18.60 

Butterine 

Beans    422.08 

Cereals,  meal 184.26 

Cheese    40.76 

Eggs    574.65 

Flour 1,324.15 

Fish   394.40 

Fruit,  fresh  and  dried 191.63 

Lard    96.67 

Meats     2,393.58 

Molasses  and  isyrup 108.78 

Sugar 399.53 

Soda  22.29 

Tea    323.58 

Vegetables   438.49 

Spices    72.59 

Yeast 40.95 

Sundries    589.35 

Clothing  and  material: 

Shoeis  and  rubbers  $863.91 

Clothing    838.69 

Dry  Goods  and  small  wares. .  974.76 

Furnishings    115.48 

Hats  and  caps 79.67 

Leather  and  shoe  findings....  60.44 

Sundries    72.68 

Furnishings: 

Bedding,  linen,  etc 1159.96 

Brushes,  brooms  109.21 

Carpets,    rugs    46.21 

Furniture  and  upholstery 124.18 

Crockery,  cutlery  34.79 

Furnishings    76.24 

Wooden  ware 5.31 

Sundries    66.80 

H«at,  light  and  power: 

Coal     $3,758.14 

Electricity    1,141.39 

Oil  8.10 

Sundries 


$7,816.65 


3,005.63 


622.70 


$4,907.63 


1914. 

$244.14 

295.20 
294.27 
140.27 

68.38 
567.11 
945.00 
204.04 
137.37 
206.85 
1,731.27 

98.47 
922.87 

237.16 

369.56 

46.44 

75.60 


$844.72 
2,020.26 


36.48 
87.45 
33.30 
111.18 


$18.00 
84.13 

23.10 

98.86 

194.38 

5.71 

12.80 


$4,146.55 

$1,127.78 

13.60 

120.70 


$6,951.88 


4,523.01 


436.98 


$5,408.68 


22  INDUSTEIAL   SCHOOL. 

Repairs  and  improvements: 

Cement,    lime    $505.68  $240.76 

Doors,    S'ai^es   6.87  5.20 

Electrical  work  and  supplies  277.52  68.89    » 

Hardware   942.51  951.82 

Lumber    353.50  293.27 

Machinery    375.00  27.26 

Paints,  oils,  glass 440.19  212.13 

Plumbing,     steam     fitting     and 

supplies 869.63  444.76 

Roofing  and  material 14.41 

Sundries    370.66  253.79 

$4,141.56         $2,512.29 

B^rm,  srtable  and  grounds: 

Blacksmith  and  supplies $173.45  $117.10 

Carriages  and  repairs 262.62  309.95 

Fertilizers,    seeds    882.51  688.21 

Hay  and  grain 1,263.85  1,804.00 

Harnesses  and  repairs 107.90  52.58 

Horses 675.00  225.00 

Other  livestock  420.90  267.90 

Tools 58.43  134.22 

Sundries    136.84  53.24 

3,981.50         — 3,652.20 

Miscellaneous: 

Books,   etc $28.15  $23.81 

Chapel  entertainment  121.00  iS.OO 

Freight  and  transportation...  240.66  347.47 

Medicines  and  supplies 229.63  335.98 

Medical  attendance 323.27  113.50 

Manual  training  45.11  49.74 

Postage 120.48  160.20 

Printing  and  supplies 135.48  21.17 

Return  of  runaways 148.62  66.50 

'Soap  and   laundry   supplies..  372.37  328.81 

Stationery  and  office  supplies  74.98  45.84 

School  books  and  supplies 192.64  151.68 

Travel  and  expenses 254.51  238.27 

Telephone  and  telegraph 144.72  155.88 

Secretarial  work 64.00                              

Water   657.65  819.40 

Dental  work  26.00                              

Ice     166.33  96.22 

Sundries    1,506.24  606.66 

4,85L84 3,576.13 

Girls'  Dormitory,  plumbing,  etc.... $530.00 

Boys*   Dormitory,  plumbing,  etc 440.00 


$970.00 


$29,327.51  .          $28,031.17 

Paid  from  income  at  institutions 1,686.66  1,031.17 

■■:     Paid  from  appropriation $27,641.85  $27,000.00 

Average  daily  number  of  inmates 139.58  146.06 


INDUSTRIAL   SCHOOL.  »3 

BILLS  PAID  FROM  APPROPRIATION  FOR  NEW  BUILDING 
FOR  GIRLS. 

Appropriation  (Legislature  1911)    $80,000.00 

Bills  paid  as  previously  reported 21,680.92 

Unexpended  September  1,  1912 

Expended  as  follows: 

Jones,  Warren,  Manning  &  Wilson, 

legal  services   $10.00 

Kennedy  &  Peterson  Coiis.  Co.,  con-  , 

tract  work    41,482.00 

John  Stevens,  plumbing 1,457.56 

Wm.  C.  Woolner,  architect.  . 200.00 

E.  E.  Hoyt,  grading    900.00 

Manchester  Water  Works,  hydrant.  37.50 

Wm.  Butterfield  Co.,  architects.  .  .  .  1,215.45 
Watson    Manfg.    Co.,    screens    and 

grills    2,364.00 

C.  A.  Hoitt  Co.,  furnishings 2,142.87 

Rhoades  &  Fillman,  linen 54.60 

The  Barton  Company,  dry  goods.  .  .  283.69 

Walter  Roper,  masonry 3.25 

A.  L.  Franks,  electrical  work 624.29 

Jas.  A.  Scully,  furnishings 527.00 

L.  M.  Folsom,  dry  goods 106.54 

West  Side  Lumber  Co.,  lumber.  ...  80.94 

John  B.  Varick  Co.,  sundries 321.59 

Kenny    Bros.     &     Walkins,     school 

desks    156.50 

Bunton  &  Bernard,  contract  work.  .  4,476.10 

Hadley  &  Burgess,  turf 97.44 

Singer  Sewing  Mch.  Co.,  sewing  ma- 
chines      66.24 

Wm.  L.  Nutting,  piano 225.00 

Hale  &  Whittemore,  pictures 59.87 

A.  P.  Home,  trees 47.25 

George  H.  Brown,  labor 293.92 

Farrell  Brothers,  electrical  work.  .  .  95.00 

Man.  T.  L.  &  P.  Co.,  motor 13.85 

Boston  &  Maine  R.  R.,  freight  ....  72.35 

Gift  Shop,  picture 7.50 

Manchester  Supply  Co.,  cement.  ...  146.61 


24  INDUSTRIAL  SCHOOL. 

N.  E.  Tel.  &  Tel.  Co.,  bolts,  etc $0.55 

C.  R.  Whitcher,  architect 3S7.95 

C.  H.  Buck  &  Co.,  tablet 190.00 

Pike  &  Heald,  plumbing 76.63 

Total $58,174.04 

Unexpended  September  1,  1914 $145.04 

APPROPRIATIONS  BY  THE  LEGISLATURE  OF  1913. 

For  the  fiscal  year  ending  August  31,  1914 $45,000.00 

as  follows: 

Salaries $17,000.00 

Maintenance   27,000.00 

Clerical 1,000.00 

For  the  fiscal  year  ending  August  81,  1915 $45,000.00 

as  follows: 

Salaries $17,000.00 

Maintenance   27,000.00 

Clerical 1,000.00 


INDUSTEIAL   SCHOOL. 


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SEVENTH  BIENNIAL  REPORT 


07 


THE  SUPERINTENDENT 


OF  THE 

NEW   HAMPSHIRE   SCHOOL 
FOR  FEEBLE  MINDED 

AT  LACONIA 

FOR  THE  BIENNIAL  PERIOD  ENDING 
AUGUST  31,  1914 


MANCHESTER.  N.  H. 

Printed  by  John  b,  Clarke  Co. 

1&15 


OFFICEES. 

Benjamin  Waed  Baker,  M.  D Superintendent 

Haeeiette  M.  Bingham Office  Assistant 

Mattie  O.  Thompson Matron 

Alice  B.  Eichaeds Teacher 

Haeeiette  W.  Patteeson Teacher 

Will  O.  Lane Teacher  of  Manual  Training 

James  A.  Youngman : .  Farm  Foreman 


EEPOKT  OF  THE  SUPERmTENDE:N^T. 

Laconia,  ]^.  H.,  September  17,  1914. 
To  the  Board  of  Control: 

I  hereby  submit  the  biennial  report  of  the  !N'ew  Hamp- 
shire School  for  Feeble  Minded  for  the  two  years  preceding 
August  31,  1914: 

Male.      Female.       Total. 

Number  present  September  1,  1912 92  90  182 

Admitted  during  two  years 19  7  26 

Readmitted  during-  two  years 1  0  1 

Discharged  during  two  years 19  5  24 

Died  during  two  years 1  1  2 

Number  present  August  31,  1914 92  91  183 

Largest  number  on  books  at  any  time. . .  96  93  189 
Average     number    present     during     two 

years     93  91  184 

School  cases  admitted 9  6  15 

Custodial  cases  admitted 11  1  12 

Part  private  cases  admitted    6  1  7 

Part  private  cases  discharged    and    died  5  0  5 
Private  and  part  private  cases  now  pres- 
ent      6  4  10 

Epileptics  admitted  during  two  years 10  3  13 

Epileptics  now  present 21  8  29 

Of  the  twenty-seven  cases  admitted  during  the  two 
years,  the  average  age  was  twelve  years,  the  admissions 
being  as  follows : 

By  court  commitment 2 

From  private  homes 24 

From  Merrimack  County  Farm 1 

Of  those  discharged,  two  boys  ran  away  and  were  Inot 
returned  to  the  school;  three  boys  were  committed  to  the 
State  Hospital;  one  boy  was  discharged  to  the  Franklin 
Orphans'  Home  as  not  feeble  minded ;  nine  boys  and  four 

3 


4  NEW  HAMPSHIKE  SCHOOL  FOE  FEEBLE  MINDED. 

girls  were  discharged  to  relatives ;  three  boys  and  two  girls 
were  placed  out  in  homes,  making  a  total  of  twenty-six  for 
the  period  covered  by  this  report,  and  a  total  of  ninety 
discharges  and  deaths  since  the  school  opened.  As  the 
capacity  of  the  school  has  at  no  time  been  above  one  hun- 
dred and  eighty  children,  the  number  of  discharges  seems 
larger  than'  should  be  expected  under  the  most  favorable 
conditions.  Parents  seeing  their  child  employed  at  the 
school  under  trained  supervision  seek  his  discharge  with 
the  expectation  that  he  will  be  able  to  do  profitable  work 
at  home  during  the  busy  season.  Removal  from  this 
school  is  sometimes  requested  that  the  child  may  accom- 
pany the  family,  who  claim  that  they  are  to  move  out  of 
the  state.  Relatives,  guided  by  their  affection  and  emo- 
tions rather  than  by  good  judgment,  permit  the  assistance 
of  those  anxious  to  demonstrate  influence  and  power  in 
removing  a  child  from  the  school.  Too  often  the  insistent, 
urgent  demands  for  admission  of  most  needy  cases,  and 
the  desire  to  make  just  one  more  vacancy  in  a  small,  over- 
crowded school  have  been  the  most  potent  reasons  for 
granting  these  requests.  For  the  same  reason  a  few  of  our 
brightest  children  have  been  placed  in  good  homes.  The 
results  have  been  as  satisfactory  as  expected.  They  indi- 
cate, however,  that  a  feeble  minded  person  is  no  more 
competent  in  a  private  home  than  in  a  public  institution ; 
also  that  the  real  good  home,  in  which  the  strange  child 
receives  parental  aifection,  consideration  and  guidance 
without  a  desire  for  selfish  returns,  is  hard  to  find. 

For  the  first  time  in  five  years  the  school  is  offering  more 
room  for  the  care  of  the  feeble  minded.  The  dormitory 
about  to  be  opened  should,  at  extreme  capacity,  accommo- 
date one  hundred  persons.  There  are  on  file  at  the  school 
applications  for  double  that  number.  The  most  urgent  de- 
mand is  for  the  admission  of  the  unprotected,  feeble 
minded  girl  of  child-bearing  age,  the .  helpless  idiot  who 
must  be  a  burden  to  someone  as  long  as  life  lasts,  and  the 
epileptic  young  man  who  has  become  unmanageable  at 


NEW  HAMPSHIKE  SCHOOL  FOE  FEEBLE  MINDED.  5 

home.  These  three  classes  present  themselves,  not  for  in- 
struction, but  for  custody  and  maintenance.  The  dis- 
charge of  those  belonging  to  the  two  classes  last  mentioned 
is  seldom  sought,  and  their  proportion  in  the  school  is 
steadily  growing,  thereby  increasing  our  per  capita  cost. 

I  do  not  wish  to  convey  the  idea  that  the  feeble  minded 
are  increasing  more  rapidly  in  numbers  than  they  have 
been  for  the  last  fifty  years.  There  are  frequent  inquiries 
for  literature  and  printed  reports  from  states  establishing 
schools  for  their  feeble  minded.  Educators  are  interested 
and  eager  for  information  on  this  subject.  The  feeble 
minded  are  being  recognized  in  our  public  schools,  singled 
out  in  our  courts,  acknowledged  in  our  county  farms,  or- 
phanages and  insane  hospitals.  I  feel  that  a  classification 
of  defectives  is  being  slowly  brought  about.  As  the  many 
town  farms  have  been  merged  into  the  county  farm,  and  as 
the  insane  have  been  taken  from  the  county  farms  to  the 
State  Hospital,  so  must  all  the  needy  feeble  minded  persons 
eventually  be  cared  for  apart  from  other  classes. 

Permit  me  at  this  time  to  bring  to  your  attention  the 
needs  of  the  school  which  seem  the  greatest.  We  are  still 
buying  standing  grass  and  are  in  need  of  more  land,  both 
field  and  pasture. 

Should  any  accident  happen  to  either  of  our  boilers  in 
midwinter,  the  other  would  not  meet  our  present  demands, 
to  say  nothing  of  heating  additional  new  buildings.  A 
new  boiler  should  be  supplied. 

Good,  intelligent  employees  are  none  too  plentiful. 
They  are  happier  and  more  efficient  if  properly  housed, 
yet  institutions  are  built  for  inmates,  with  little  provision 
for  the  employees,  on  whom  their  successful  mauagement 
depends.  I  most  earnestly  recommend  that  provision  be 
made  for  an  employees'  home. 

We  are  at  present  buying  approximately  1,100  dozen 
cold  storage  eggs  per  year.  If  provided  with  suitable  hen- 
houses, yards  and  equipment,  I  see  no  reason  why  we  can- 
not raise  all  the  fresh  eggs  and  poultry  we  might  need. 


^  NEW  HAMPSHIEE  SCHOOL  FOR  FEEBLE  MINDED. 

Platform  scales  would  be  of  frequent  use  and  promote 
accuracy  in  farm  accounts.  I  accordingly  recommend 
them  for  your  consideration. 

There  are  on  the  place  twelve  wooden  buildings,  all  in 
need  of  painting.  As  this  item  of  expense  could  not  be 
easily  borne  by  our  allowance  for  maintenance,  it  should 
be  otherwise  provided  for. 

The  horse  barn  is  in  need  of  repairs;  was  originally 
made  from  an  old  barn  and  will  not  now  accommodate  all 
our  horses.  I  would  suggest  that  it  be  enlarged  and  re- 
paired, or  rebuilt. 

There  is  at  present  no  sanitary  room  in  which  to  strain 
and  care  for  the  milk  of  our  herd.  An  evident  want  might 
be  supplied  by  a  small,  one-story  sanitary  cement  building, 
connected  with  the  barn  by  a  walk-way  and  properly 
equipped  to  care  for  the  milk,  according  to  approved  and 
modern  methods. 

Previous  to  the  retirement  of  the  Board  of  Trustees, 
June  1,  1913  by  legislative  act,  they  voted  that  the  bequests 
held  by  them  be  expended  for  playground  apparatus. 
These  bequests,  from  James  Cleaves  of  Candia  and  Mary 
A.  Taply  of  Parmington,  with  interest,  amounting  to 
$161.27,  were  expended  for  the  following: 

Giant  Stride,  Children's  Slide,  Teeter  Ladder,  Flying 
Rings,  Trapeze,  Horizontal  Bar,  Steel  Swing,  complete 
with  fittings,  etc. 

This  apparatus  is  set  in  cement  on  the  grounds  in  front 
of  the  dormitories,  where  it  can  be  enjoyed  by  all  the  chil- 
dren. It  not  only  furnishes  wholesome  outdoor  exercise 
but  adds  to  the  social  enjoyment  of  the  school. 

There  is  perhaps  no  more  important  side  of  life  than  the 
social  side,  especially  in  an  institution.  With  an  increas- 
ingly large  adult  population,  it  is  less  easy  to  preserve 
social  unity,  but  we  seek  to  stimulate  the  spirit  of  play  and 
of  good  fellowship  that  there  may  be  the  greatest  happiness 
for  all. 

As  in  previous  years,  the  boys  and  girls  have  been  re- 


NEW  HAMPSHIEE  SCHOOL  FOE  FEEBLE  MINDED.  7 

inembered  by  many  generous  gifts,  and  to  these  friends  of 
the  school  we  wish  to  express  our  gratitude. 

I  am  also  grat-eful  for  the  faithful  assistance  of  those 
with  whom  I  am  associated. 

Kespectfully  submitted, 

BElSTJAMIlSr  WAED  BAKEE,  M.  D., 

Superintendent. 


8  NEW  HAMPSHIEE  SCHOOL  FOR  FEEBLE  MINDED. 

ANALYSIS    OF    EXPENSES    FOR    THE    BIENNIAL    PERIOD 
ENDING  AUGUST  31,  1915. 


1913. 


1914. 


Payroll    

Food: 

Butter $521.80 

Butterine   156.72 

Beans 113.08 

Bread  and  crackers 355.62 

Cereals,  etc 148.63 

Cheese    26.14 

Eggs   280.20 

Flour    1,442.25 

Fish  352.67 

Fruits    211.28 

Meats   1,503.57 

Molasses,    etc 198.41 

Sugar     435.32 

Tea,  coifee,  etc 244.36 

Vegetables    52.27 

Sundries     425.50 

Clothing  and  Clothing  Material : 

Shoes  and  rubbers $778.33 

Clothing    326.47 

Dry    goods,    etc 560.33 

Hats    and    caps 7.50 

Leather,    etc 179.79 

Furnishings : 

Beds   and   linen $552.79 

Brushes,  etc 69.02 

Carpets,   etc 17.45 

Crockery    63.73 

Furniture     196.30 

Kitchen  furnishings   138.05 

Toilet  supplies   17.64 

Woodenware    74.72 

Sundries     13.30 

Heat,  light  and  power : 

Coal     $2,335.48 

Freight    on    coal 538.34 

Oil     4.95 

Gasoline     24.00 

Electricity     1,155.20 

Matches,  sundries   1.10 

Repairs  and  improvements: 

Cement $94.43 

Doors,     sashes,     etc 30.64 

Electrical  work,    etc 151.30 

Hardware 212.38 

Lumber  .  191.25 

Machinery    42.73 


$16,184.77 


$6,467.82 


1,852.42 


1,143.00 


4.(«9.07 


$522.17 
159.23 
252.97 
379.50 
244.45 
68.53 
259.54 

1,085.73 
345.79 
215.06 

1,598.67 
121.37 
439.40 
188.23 
33.13 
439.93 


$214.05 

1.50 

492.07 

16.80 

132.11 


$149.20 
73.82 
23.75 
77.11 


251.89 


55.46 
121.26 


$3,202.95 

684.43 

14.58 

27.75 

1,146.65 

2.50 


$224.38 

33.87 

129.74 

189.47 

133.09 

4.77 


$16,681.19 


$6,353.70 


S56.53 


811.32 


5,078.86 


NEW  HAMPSHIRE  SCHOOL  FOR  FEEBLE  MINDED. 


1913.  1914. 

Paints,   glass,   etc 176.72  195.89 

Plumbing,  etc 250.89  376.98 

Stone   work    199.04                               

Roofing  and  materials 113,79  17.57 

Pipe    52.84  38.64 

Sundries  6.00 

1,516.01         1,350.40 

Farm,  stable  and  grounds: 

Blacksmith  and  supplies $333.74  $182.19 

Carriages  and  repairs 223.91  177.76 

Fertilizers,   etc 506.46  421.93 

Hay   and    grain 2,395.87  2,589.09 

Harness   and  repairs 46.93  145.48 

Evaporator    116.31                               

Live    stock    24.75  169.57 

Tools    126.78  208.68 

Livery    27.25  *212.50 

Rent    110.00                               

Veterinary  services  22.00                               

Sundries  5.90  104.67 

3,939.90         4,211.87 

Miscellaneous : 

Books   and   periodicals $57.20  $28.16 

Chapel  service,  etc 93.42  69.62 

Medicines,  etc 125.77  148,57 

Manual    training    84.96  40.81 

Postage    94.30  101.25 

Return   of   runaways 17.64  20.91 

Soap    358.60  212.34 

Stationery  and  office  supplies  109.04  94.80 

School  books  247.36  34.72    ' 

Travel  and  expense  (official)..  238.17  121.09 

Telephone  and  telegraph 125.24  122.53 

Medical  attendance  99.71  36.63 

Sewing  room  64.84  31.84 

Toilet  supplies  18.00                               

Gratuities     7.00  tl64.25 

Freight    124.48  186.24 

Sundries     28.03  63.69 

1,893.76         1,477.45 


Total   cash  payments $37,056.75  $$36,821.32 

Paid  from  income  at  institution 1,960.99  1,717.79 

Paid    from    appropriation    $35,095.76  $35,103.53 

Unexpended   balance   4.24  

Refund   on  freight    /                  3.53 


$35,100.00  $35,100.00 

♦Horses.       fHose. 

IBills  to  the  amount  of  $470.68,  chargeable  to  maintenance,  for  the  year 
ending  August  31,  1914,  and  paid  by  the  Purchasing  Agent,  were  not  approved 
and  allowed  by  the  Auditor  to  prevent  overdraft. 


10         new  hampshiee  school  foe  feeble  minded. 

Estimates  of  Products  of  the  Farm. 

Beets,  bushels : 200 

Carrots,  bushels 275 

Parsnips,  bushels 150 

Potatoes,  bushels 2,600 

Onions,  bushels   278 

Turnips,  bushels   600 

Cucumbers,  bushels 125 

Tomatoes,  bushels 200 

Sweet  corn,  bushels 714 

Green  peas,  bushels Ill 

Dry  beans,  bushels 17 

Shell  beans,  bushels 45 

String  beans,  bushels 290 

Beet  greens,  bushels 66 

Turnip  greens,  bushels 120 

Squash,  tons    7 

Pumpkins,  tons 5 

Cabbage,  heads    8,000 

Lettuce,  heads   6,000 

Celery  plants 2,000 

Spinach,  bushels   45 

Cress,  bushels 10 

Mangles,  bushels 490 

Cauliflower,  heads 30 

Radishes,  bushels    24 

Dandelion  greens,  bushels 256 

Hay,  tons 150 

Hugarian,  tons   2 

Oats  for  fodder,  tons 12 

Ensilage,  tons   220 

Egg  plant,  bushels 10 

Peppers,  bushels   2 

Milk,  pounds 233,554 

Pigs    120 

Calves    43 


NEW  HAMPSHIRE  SCHOOL  FOR  FEEBLE  MINDED.  11 

Musk  melons,  bushels 6 

Watermelons,  bushels   25 

Cultivated  blackberries,  quarts 75 

Wild  raspberries,  quarts 36 

Cultivated  blackberries 75 

Apples,  barrels 38 

Blueberries  picked  on  neighboring  land,  quarts  2,700 

PRESERVES^    JELLIES^    ETC. 

Peaches,  quarts 45 

Blueberries,  quarts    223 

Blackberries,  quarts    41 

Baspberries,  quarts 15 

Plums,  quarts    155 

Pears,  quarts 127 

Grape  jelly,  glasses 78 

Peach  marmalade,  quarts 3% 

Crab  apple  jelly,  glasses 25 

Maple  syrup,  gallons 185 

Currant  jelly,  glasses 187 

Strawberries,  quarts   38 

Cherries,  quarts 37 

Apple  jelly,  quarts 4 

Plum  butter,  quarts 4% 

Blueberry  jelly,  glasses 34 

Blueberry  and  currant,  glasses 18 

PICKLES. 

Tomato  soy,  gallons 25 

Pear  pickle,  quarts 12 

Spiced  cucumber  pickle,  gallons '. 9 

Sweet  cucumber  pickle,  gallons 18 

Cucumbers  salted,  barrels 2 

Cucumber  pickles,  gallons 40 

Chili  sauce,  quarts 26 


12  NEW  HAMPSHIRE  SCHOOL  FOR  FEEBLE  MINDED. 

English  pickle,  quarts 19 

Dutch  pickle,  quarts 16 

Picalilli,  gallons   6 

VEGETABLES    CANNED. 

Shell  beans,  quarts 30 

Dandelions,  bushels    60 

Corn,  quarts    170 

String   beans,    quarts 300 

Peas,  quarts 158 

Tomatoes,  quarts 286 

ARTICLES  MADE  IN  THE  SEWING  ROOM. 

Aprons,  ticking,  5 ;  aprons,  428 ;  bread  cloths,  12 ;  boys' 
sailor  suits,  4;  boys'  blouses,  21 ;  bibs,  32 ;  brassiere  waists, 
5 ;  bureau  scarfs,  27 ;  collars,  2 ;  candy  bags,  473 ;  corset 
covers,  24;  dish  cloths,  145;  drawers,  pairs,  97;  dresses, 
195 ;  dust  caps,  11 ;  extractor  cloths,  8 ;  guimpe,  1 ;  holders, 
11;  jumpers,  132;  laundry  bags,  20;  mittens,  pairs,  76; 
mail  bags,  2;  nightshirts,  243;  nightgowns,  211;  overalls, 
pairs,  352 ;  overshirts,  159 ;  pants,  pair,  1 ;  pillow  slips, 
372 ;  petticoats,  68 ;  romper  suits,  41 ;  rugs,  woven,  52 ; 
rugs,  hooked,  1 ;  restraint  waists,  13 ;  slippers,  pair,  1 ; 
stand  covers,  2 ;  suspenders,  pairs,  45 ;  shirtwaists,  51 ; 
sash  curtains,  pair,  25 ;  sanitary  napkins,  201 ;  sanitary 
belts,  81;  sheets,  310;  towels,  miscellaneous,  1,059;  table 
napkins,  237;  tablecloths,  7;  underwaists,  166;  window 
curtains,  hemstitched,  pairs,  28;  waitress'  cuffs,  pairs,  8; 
white  duck  coats,  28. 

FANCY  WORK,  ETC.,  MADE  IN  SEWING  ROOM. 

Aprons,  5 ;  center  pieces,  4 ;  dolls,  3 ;  dolls'  mattresses, 
4 ;  dolls'  pillows,  4 ;  dolls'  sheets,  10 ;  dolls'  pillow  slips,  4 ; 
dolls'  spreads,  4 ;  dolls  dressed,  3 ;  doilies,  9 ;  handkerchief 


NEW  HAMPSHIKE  SCHOOL  FOE  FEEBLE  MINDED.  18 

case,  1;  jabots,  embroidered,  28;  jabots,  crocheted,  5;  May 
pole  streamers,  14 ;  penwipers,  2 ;  pin  and  needle  case,  1 ; 
Pied  Piper's  coat,  1 ;  rubber  cases,  2 ;  sofa  pillow  cover, 
woven,  silk,  6 ;  sofa  pillow  cover,  woven,  D,  1 ;  sofa  pil- 
low, embroidered,  2;  shoe  bags,  2;  Scotch  caps,  girdles 
and  sashes,  4;  sponge  bag,  1;  spool  case,  1;  tray  cloths, 
23;  towels,  4;  ties,  hemstitched,  3   ;work  bag,  1. 

ARTICLES   MEI^DED   IN   SEWING  EOOM. 

Aprons,  528 ;  bath  robe,  1 ;  bibs,  17 ;  blouses,  431 ;  dress^ 
1;  drawers,  pairs,  654;  gymnasium  suits,  23;  horse 
blanket,  1 ;  jumpers,  697 ;  laundry  bags,  39 ;  nightshirts, 
1,552;  overalls,  1,967;  pants,  489;  overshirts,  958;  pillow 
slips,  20 ;  restraint  jackets,  59 ;  romper  suits,  692 ;  roller 
towels,  3;  sheets,  11;  spread,  1;  school  bags,  3;  under- 
shirts, 515 ;  underwaists,  11 ;  union  suits,  22 ;  white  duck 
coats,  51;  waitress  aprons,  14. 

ALTERED  IN   SEWING  ROOM. 

Coats,  12 ;  dresses,  12 ;  petticoats,  3 ;  pants,  pairs,  3 ; 
shirtwaist,  1 ;  skirts,  dress,  2 ;  tablecloths,  4. 

PRODUCTS  OF  SCHOOL  ROOMS. 

Baskets,  reed,  508;  baskets,  raffia,  98;  broom  cases,  25; 
raffia  pillow,  1 ;  table  mats,  37 ;  napkin  rings,  11 ;  milk- 
weed coasters,  19;  caps,  knit,  117;  dolls'  caps,  4;  mittens, 
pairs,  6 ;  helmets,  8 ;  purses,  8 ;  sachets,  4 ;  dolls'  blankets, 
4 ;  afghan,  1 ;  shawls,  18 ;  yarn  dolls,  4 ;  sweaters,  4 ;  scarf, 
1 ;  slippers,  pairs,  16 ;  baby  blanket,  1 ;  wash  cloths,  21 ; 
fascinator,  1 ;  dolls'  jackets,  3  ;  set  of  dolls'  bells,  1 ;  basket- 
ball markers,  9 ;  bathing  tights,  pair,  1 ;  bath  mitts,  2 ; 
balls,  4;  hood,  1;  bean  bags,  2;  pincushions,  7;  reins,  29; 
bed  shoes,  pair,  1 ;  laundry  bags,  1 ;  dolls'  hammocks,  14 ; 
netted  laundry  bags,  2;  shaving  pads,  3;  tatting,  yards, 
ll/o. 


14  NEW  HAMPSHIBE  SCHOOL  FOR  FEEBLE  MINDED. 

CROCHETED. 

Shawl,  1 ;  lace,  yards,  33 ;  caps,  9 ;  helmet,  1 ;  hot  water 
bag  cover,  1 ;  doilies,  34 ;  purses,  3 ;  sachets,  8 ;  bags,  5 ; 
pincushion  tops,  2 ;  collar,  1 ;  jabots,  11 ;  lingerie  cord,  1. 

ARTICLES  MADE  IN  MANUAL  TRAINING  SHOP. 

Knife  boxes,  17;  plant  stands,  44;  coat  hangers,  21; 
broom  holders,  14;  book  racks  and  cases,  35;  candlesticks, 
21;  blotters,  2;  dolls'  bedsteads,  8;  polishers,  10;  boxes, 
29  ;  checker  boards,  8  ;  garden  markers,  4;  table,  16  ;  neck- 
tie racks,  16 ;  inkstands,  3 ;  clothing  pegs,  1 ;  paper  knives, 
10 ;  hammock  stands,  2 ;  sleds,  10 ;  bench  hooks,  5 ;  trous- 
ers hangers,  21;  pencil  holders,  2;  milking  stool,  1;  plant 
tubs,  2 ;  guns,  3  ;  towel  rollers,  2  ;  darning  balls,  3  ;  picture 
frames,  11 ;  taborets,  12  ;  ruler,  1 ;  footstools,  2  ;  wind  boys, 
6 ;  box  traps,  4 ;  bean  bag  board,  1 ;  magazine  stands,  6 ; 
closets,  6 ;  work  bench,  1 ;  bathroom  racks,  2 ;  towel  racks, 
4 ;  double  runners,  5  ;  toys,  4 ;  umbrella  racks,  2  ;  chair,  1 ; 
hat  rack,  1 ;  goad  stick,  1 ;  ladder,  1 ;  sleeve  boards,  6 ; 
peggy  sticks,  7 ;  kites,  3 ;  stilts,  pairs,  2 ;  pen  trays,  3 ; 
brackets,  4 ;  mirror  frame,  1 ;  puzzles,  3 ;  drawing  boards, 
3 ;  T  square,  3 ;  waste  basket,  1 ;  comb  case,  1 ;  bird  house, 
1 ;  plate  shelf,  1 ;  turning  saw  frame,  1 ;  forms  for  train- 
ing class,  14 ;  brush  holders,  8 ;  inkstands,  2 ;  lacing  form, 
1 ;  baskets,  5 ;  knife  scouring  board,  1 ;  chair  bottoms,  6 ; 
moccasins,  pairs,  175 ;  basket  bottoms,  blocks,  etc.,  mis- 
cellaneous lot ;  tool  handles,  54. 

REPAIRED  IN  MANUAL  TRAINING  SHOP. 

Step  ladders,  3;  polishers,  13;  bookcases,  4;  sleds,  10; 
doH'c  bed,  1 ;  wheelbarrow,  1. 


THIRD  BIENNIAL  REPORT 


OF  THE 


SUPERINTENDENT   AND 
TREASURER 


OF  THE 


NEW  HAMPSHIRE  STATE 
SANATORIUM 


FOE  THE 


BIENNIAL  PERIOD  ENDING  AUGUST 
31.   1914 


Printed  bt  John  b.  Clarke  Co. 

MAJNCHESTBR.  N.  H. 

1915 


OFFICEES. 

John  M.  Wise,  M.  D Superintendent 

William  A.  Domey Steward 

Geetrude  I.  Wise Head  Nurse 

James   House Farmer 

Caleb  S.  Bukleigh Engineer 

Railroad  Station  and  Postoffice,  Glejtcliff^  I^.  H. 


LOCATION 


The  'New  Hampshire  State  Sanatorium  is  located  at 
Glencliff,  seventy-six  miles  north  of  Concord,  on  the  White 
Mountain  Division  of  the  Boston  and  Maine  Bailroad, 
two  miles  from  the  station,  on  the  southern  slope  of  Mount 
Moosilauke,  at  an  elevation  of  1,650  feet.  It  averages 
about  170  perfectly  clear  days  in  the  year.  Its  extremes 
of  temperature  are  less  than  those  of  the  surrounding 
places.  It  has  an  unlimited  supply  of  pure  water,  and  all 
modern  conveniences. 


SUPERINTEIS^DEXT'S  EEPOET. 

To  the  Board  of  Control: 

Herewith  is  submitted  the  superintendent's  third  bien- 
nial report  of  the  J^ew  Hampshire  State  Sanatorium  for 
the  period  ending  August  31,  1914. 

This  period  has  witnessed  no  increase  in  the  patient 
capacity  of  the  sanatorium.  The  demand  for  admission 
has  at  times,  especially  in  the  winter  months,  greatly  ex- 
ceeded the  capacity;  in  the  summer  months,  the  demand 
has  been  somewhat  less.  This  condition  is  parallel  with 
that  of  former  years.  The  daily  average  for  the  first  year 
of  this  report  was  55.27 ;  for  the  second  year,  53.95.  There 
were  three  hundred  thirty-three  applicants  examined  for 
admission;  of  this  number,  fifty-two  were  rejected  as  being 
hopelessly  far  advanced,  eight  were  considered  non-tuber- 
culous, two  hundred  one  were  admitted,  and  seventy-two 
were  not  admitted  for  various  reasons. 

Types  of  Cases  Admitted. 

Of  the  two  hundred  two  cases  discharged  during  the  two 
years,  forty-one  or  20.3%  were  incipient,  eighty-eight  or 
43.56%  were  moderately  advanced,  and  seventy- three  or 
36.14%  were  far  advanced.  This  classification  again 
forcibly  demonstrates  that  if  we  are  to  treat  tuberculosis 
as  a  curable  disease  we  are,  for  some  reason,  obtaining  far 
too  few  favorable  cases ;  that  if  we  are  to  treat  the  disease 
from  the  standpoint  of  prophylaxis,  we  are  still  working 
with  an  inadequate  number  of  infectious  cases,  the  pro- 
portion of  which  increases  with  an  increasing  ratio  as  the 
stage  of  the  disease  advances.  Favorable  cases,  even  when 
diagnosed,  often  hesitate  to  come  to  an  institution.  Pi- 
tients  do  not  always  consider  that  the  staff  of  an  institii- 


4  NEW   HAMPSHIKE   SANATOKIUM. 

tion,  or  its  examiners,  are  impartially  advocating  the 
advantages  of  sanatorium  treatment.  They  quite  often 
presume  such  advice  to  be  partial.  It  rests  with  the  family 
physician  not  only  to  find  the  tuberculous,  but  also  to 
prepare  them  mentally  to  seek  the  advantages  of  the  sana- 
torium before  it  is  too  late. 

The  Habit  of  Delay. 

We  "receive  applications  from  patients  who  have  been 
taking  treatment  at  home  anywhere  from  six  months  to 
two  or  three  years.  During  all  this  time  there  has  been 
a  steady  decline.  They  have  then  reached  a  point  where 
•cure  is  impossible,  and  arrest  of  the  disease  improbable. 
Many  of  these  patients  have  had  no  physician  in  regular 
attendance.  Where  they  have  had  such  attendance,  to  the 
attending  physicians  would  seem  to  fall  the  responsibility 
of  framing  the  minds  of  patients  to  earlier  seek  an  institu- 
tion. Those  who  have  relied  upon  themselves,  we  are  still 
seeking  a  means  of  reaching.  Up  to  the  present  time,  our 
most  effective  solicitor  is  the  ex-patient.  Aside  from  the 
discipline  he  receives  for  his  own  benefit,  his  influence  as  a 
teacher  and  as  a  disciple  of  the  outdoor  life  is  one  of  our 
greatest  assets. 

Since  we  are  dependent  upon  the  family  physicians  both 
for  the  kind  and  quantity  of  cases  for  our  work,  it  seems 
proper  that  more  responsibility  should  be  placed  upon  their 
shoulders;  that  they  should  be  made  to  feel  that  in  their 
hands,  quite  as  much  as  in  our  own,  is  the  power  to  make 
of  the  anti-tuberculosis  cause  a  success. 

Change  of  System  Advocated. 

By  having  regular  examiners  for  the  sanatorium,  the 
responsibility  for  diagnosis  is  unconsciously  and  improp- 
erly shifted  to  their  shoulders.  I  believe  we  ought  to 
openly  place  the  responsibility  where  it  belongs — upon  the 


NEW   HAMPSHIRE    SANATORIUM.  5 

physicians  in  general  practice.  This  would  surely  pro- 
duce a  fluctuation  in  the  classification  of  cases,  with  a 
decided  tendency  to  an  increase  of  the  more  advanced. 
But,  like  the  experience  in  other  states,  this  fluctuation 
would  he  temporary,  and  would,  in  the  course  of  about  a 
year,  return  to  its  accustomed  level.  The  experience  has 
also  shown  that  this  method  has  stimulated  the  making  of 
better  diagnoses,  has  prompted  better  treatment,  and  has 
broken  down  the  dangerous  barrier  of  delay  between  di- 
agnosis and  admission. 

I  believe  that  the  less  formality  necessary  for  applica- 
tion and  admission  to  an  institution,  the  better  will  be  the 
results.  It  does  not  matter  so  much  that  we  have  treated 
so  many  cases  of  such  a  class  with  such  results  as  that 
we  have  recognized  the  actual  need  in  our  state  and  sup- 
plied it.  I  would  respectfully  recommend  that  the  present 
plan  of  having  regularly  appointed  examiners  be  discon- 
tinued and  that  every  registered  physician  be  allowed  to 
make  out  an  application  for  his  own  patient  and  forward 
it  directly  to  the  superintendent,  who  shall,  as  heretofore, 
determine  the  admissibility  of  applicants.  By  this  I  do 
not  intend  to  recommend  the  admission  of  hopelessly  far 
advanced  cases,  but  that  the  least  degree  of  favorability 
shall  continue  to  be  that  the  case  present  a  reasonable 
prospect  of  improvement. 

Results  of  Treatment. 

The  results  of  treatment  have  been  consistent  with' the 
types  of  cases  furnished.  The  classification  of  results  has 
been  made  in  accordance  with  the  new  schema  recently 
adopted  by  the  American  Sanatorium  Association.  For 
the  percentages  of  results,  you  are  respectfully  referred  to 
statistical  table  'No.  4^  and  for  the  interpretation  of  this 
table  to  the  schema  for  classification  of  results  which  ap- 
pears on  a  subsequent  page  of  this  report.  To  those  who 
are  unfamiliar  with  the  new  classification  this  will  appear 


6  NEW   HAMPSHIRE   SANATOIUUM. 

'/ 

to  be  a  less  favorable  result,  but  a  comparison  of  the  new 
terms  and  definitions  with  the  old  ones  will  show  the  re- 
sults to  be  quite  parallel  with  those  of  former  years.  Your 
attention  is  also  called  especially  to  Table  ]^o.  17,  which 
contains  a  record  of  the  present  condition  of  the  ex- 
patients  of  this  sanatorium,  as  far  as  we  are  able  to  trace 
them. 

After  History  of  Patients. 

The  fact  that  so  many  patients  who  leave  the  sanatorium 
in  satisfactory  condition  fail  to  keep  well  after  they  return 
to  their  homes  is  not  a  proof  of  the  failure  of  the  sana- 
torium treatment  to  produce  permanent  results,  but  is 
rather  an  evidence  that  the  home  life  of  the  patients  needs 
supervision  and  correction.  We  find  that  relapses  are 
due  not  so  much  to  unsuitable  occupation  as  to  the  misuse 
of  the  hours  between  the  day's  regular  employment.  The 
ex-patient  who  fails  to  avail  himself  of  these  hours  for  rest, 
open-air  life,  and  open-air  sleeping,  or  in  other  words,  fails 
to  adapt  his  mode  of  living  to  his  infirmity,  rs  the  person 
who  is  certain  to  be  readmitted  to  the  sanatorium.  Occu- 
pation is  not  the  greater  influence  in  this  respect;  re- 
muneration and  high  cost  of  living  are  more  determining 
factors;  a  lesson  imperfectly  learned  makes  up  the  total 
which  spells  failure.  The  point,  however,  to  be  made  is 
that  our  duty  does  not  cease  when  we  have  discharged  the 
patient  in  good  condition.  His  subsequent  history  and 
the, influence  of  his  association  with  other  people  are  quite 
as  important  as  his  sanatorium  treatment. 

This  work  of  subsequent  encouragement  and  supervi- 
sion could  not  be  done  without  the  employment  of  a  social 
worker,  preferably  an  experienced  nurse,  to  work  in  co- 
operation with  and  under  the  direction  of  the  superin- 
tendent of  the  sanatorium.  The  salary  and  expenses  of 
such  a  person  would  need  to  be  especially  provided  for. 
We  now  have  no  systematic  way  of  keeping  in  touch  with 
our  ex-patients.     I  submit  this  question  for  consideration. 


25 


NEW   HAMPSHIEE   SANATORIUM.  7 

as  I  believe  it  to  be  a  valuable  adjunct  to  our  work  and  a 
branch  the  possibilities  of  which  I  should  very  much  like 
to  see  realized. 

Method  of  Admission. 

For  general  information,  the  method  of  admission  is  as 
follows : 

1.  Every  prospective  patient  must  be  examined  by  one 
of  the  regularly  appointed  examiners,  and  an  application 
made  out  by  the  examiner  and  forwarded  to  the  super- 
intendent. 

2.  The  superintendent  decides  upon  the  admissibility 
of  applicants. 

3.  The  regular  rate  for  board  and  treatment  is  $10 
per  week.  Those  who  can  pay  this  rate  are  admitted  at 
once.  All  others  to  be  eligible  must  fill  out  an  application 
for  state  aid  and  forward  it  to  the  Secretary  of  the  State 
Board  of  Charities  at  Concord,  stating  the  amount  they 
can  pay,  if  anything.  The  Secretary  then  determines  the 
amount  to  be  paid,  and  forwards  a  card  to  that  effect  to 
the  superintendent.  Those  unable  to  pay  anything  are 
admitted  free,  the  state  assuming  the  expense.  When  va- 
cancies  occur,  the  superintendent  notifies  eligible  patients 
when  to  come. 

Regular  Examinees. 

Dr.  S.  E.  TJpham,  Claremont,  :N^.  H. 

Dr.  M.  B.  Sullivan,  Dover,  IST.  H. 

Dr.  J.  D.  Proctor,  Keene,  :N^.  H. 

Dr.  A.  H.  Harriman,  Laconia,  ^N".  H. 

Dr.  A.  Lavallee,  Berlin,  'N.  H.,  and  the 

Superintendent  at  Glencliff,  IST.  H.,  except  on  the  Eirst 
and  Third  Tuesdays  of  each  month,  when  he  examines  at 
the  office  of  Dr.  A.  F.  Wheat,  967  Elm  Street,  Manchester, 
K  H.,  from  11.00  a.  m.  to  12.30  p.  m. 

Acceptable  cases  are  those  which  present  a  reasonable 
prospect  of  improvement  or  cure.  Cases  less  favorable  are 
rejected. 


8  new  hampshiee  sanatorium. 

Improvements. 

A  complete  refrigerating  plant  has  been  added  to  the 
equipment  of  the  kitchen,  and  is  about  ready  for  occu- 
pancy. It  will  supply  a  long-felt  want,  and  will  enable  us 
to  buy  in  safety  perishable  provisions  in  larger  quantities 
and  obviate  the  necessity  of  living  from  hand  to  mouth, 
with  occasionally  an  empty  larder,  because  of  poor  trans- 
portation facilities.  It  will  also  save  considerable  expense 
by  reducing  transportation  charges. 

The  kitchen  was  further  equipped  by  the  purchase  of  a 
new  range,  a  steam  table,  a  broiler,  and  tea  and  coffee 
urns.  Under  the  refrigerating  plant  a  vegetable  cellar 
was  built,  supplying  another  of  our  various  needs. 

The  third  floor  of  the  dining-room  building  has  been 
finished  and  made  into  nine  pleasant  rooms,  and  two  bath- 
rooms for  the  use  of  employees,  who  had  hitherto  been 
improperly  accommodated. 

A  new  boiler  of  greater  capacity,  an  engine  and  electric 
generator  complete  and  a  coal  pocket  have  been  added  to 
the  equipment  of  this  department.  This  supplies  a  dual 
system  for  use  in  case  one  unit  fails. 

The  enlargement  of  the  dam  is  under  construction. 
When  completed  this  will  furnish  sufficient  water  to  main- 
tain pressure  in  case  of  fire.  The  installing  of  two  hy- 
drants with  outside  hose,  for  which  an  appropriation  was 
received,  has  not  yet  been  done. 

The  erection  of  a  new  barn  for  horses  and  cows  meets  a 
need  that  had  been  steadfastly  denied  until  the  present 
biennial  period.  Up  to  this  time  we  have  been  compelled 
to  hire  some  very  poorly  equipped  buildings. 

Acknowledgments. 

Grateful  appreciation  is  expressed  to  the  following: 
'New  Hampshire  Branch  of  the  Red  Cross  for  financial 
aid  to  patients. 


NEW   HAMPSHIRE   SANATORIUM.  9 

W.  C.  T.  U.  of  Littleton  for  magazines. 

W.  C.  T.  U.  of  Concord  for  books. 

Cardp  1^0.  26,  S.  O.  Y.,  of  Claremont  for  a  large  Ameri- 
can flag. 

Federation  of  Women's  Clubs  of  'New  Hampshire  for  a 
phonograph  and  records,  and  many  books. 

Mrs.  Lorin  Webster  of  Holderness  for  books,  magazines 
and  many  kind  offices. 

Rev.  W.  A.  Loyne  of  Warren  for  extensive  reading  ma- 
terial, visitations,  conducting  services  and  furnishing 
musical  entertainments.  Also  to  the  orchestra  boys  of 
Tilton  Seminary  and  the  other  good  people  of  Warren  who 
assisted  in  furnishing  music. 

Eev.  Fr.  Eedden,  Eev.  Fr.  Griffin,  Rev.  Fr.  Walsh  and 
Rev.  Fr.  Quirk  of  Woodsville  for  their  willingness  to  re- 
spond to  every  call. 

Rev.  John  Knox  Tibbits  of  Concord  for  visitations, 
lectures  and  conducting  services. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

JOHIST  M.  WISE,  M.  D., 

Superintendent. 


STATISTICAL  TABLES. 


TABLE  I. 
Admissions  and  Discharges,  1912-1913. 


Men. 


Women.       Total. 


Number  patients  in  sanatorium  Sept.  1,  1912. 

Number  admitted  Sept.  1,  1912,  to  Aug.  31,  1913... 
Number  discharged  Sept.  1,  1912,  to  Aug.  31,  1913. 

Number  deaths  (included  in  preceding  item) 

Number  patients  in  sanatorium  August  31,  1913.. 


Daily  average  for  year  55.27 

Total  number  hospital  days 20,175.97 

Average  number  weeks  residence  24.78 


TABLE  II. 
Admissions  and  Discharges,  1913-1914. 


Men. 

Women. 

Total. 

Number  patients  in  sanatorium  Sept.  1,  1913 

Number  admitted  Sept.  1,  1913,  to  Aug.  31,  1914... 
Number  discharged  Sept.  1,  1913,  to  Aug.  31,  1914. 

Number  deaths  (included  in  preceding  item) 

Number  in  sanatorium  August  31    1914 

30 
59 
62 
3 
27 

26 
45 
47 
2 
24 

56 

104 

109 

5 

51 

Daiily  average  for  year  53.95 

Total  number  hospital  days 19,691.06 

Average  number  weeks  residence 25.81 


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NEW   HAMPSHIRE   SANATORIUM, 


TABLE  IV. 
NuTBinoNAL  Changes  of  Cases  Discharged. 


Total. 


Number  who  gained  weight 
Number  who  lost  weight . . 

No   change  in 

Average  gain,  pounds 

Average  loss,  pounds    

Greatest  gain,  pounds 


155 
35 
12 


TABLE  V. 
Stage  on  Admission  of  Dischabged  Cases. 


Men. 

Women. 

Total. 

Per  Cent. 

Incipient    

Moderately  advanced . . . 
Far  advanced 

... 

20 

46 
40 

21 

42 
33 

41 

88 
73 

20.3 

43.56 

36.14 

106 

96 

202 

100.00 

T 

ABLE  VI. 

Number    Discharged    Paying    Full    Rate,    Partial    Rate,    and 

Nothing. 


Men. 

Women. 

Total. 

Full  rate   

10 
41 
55 

6 
38 
52 

16 

Partial  rate   

79 

Nothing  

107 

106 

96 

202 

NEW   HAMPSHIEE   SANATORIUM. 


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TABLE  VII. 
Civil    Condition    of   Patients    Discharged. 


Married    . 
Single    . . 
Widowed 
Divorced    . 
Separated 


Men. 

Women. 

Total. 

44 

34 

78 

58 

51 

109 

1 

10 

11 

0 

1 

1 

3 

0 

3 

106 

96 

202 

TABLE  VIII. 
Age  of  Patients  Dischaeged. 


Men.           Women. 

Total. 

Under  fourteen  years 

1                    1 

2 

Fourteen  to  twenty  years 

Twenty  to  thirty  years 

Thirty  to  forty  years .... 

Forty  to  fifty  years 

13 
46 
33 
12 
1 

10 
46 
27 
11 
1 

23 
92 
60 
23 

Over  fifty  years •. . . . 

2 

106        j            96 

202 

TABLE  IX. 
County  of  Residence  of  Patients   Discharged. 


j               Men. 

Women. 

Total. 

Belknap 

Carroll   

3 
1 

6 
3 
9 
2 
9 
44 
7 
6 
5 
2 
3 

9 

4 

Cheshire    

9 

4 

11 

39 

12 

7 

12 

4 

4 

18 

Coos    

6 

Grafton    

20 

Hillsborongfh    

83 

Merrimack    

19 

Rockingham   

13 

StrafFord  

17 

Sullivan     

6 

Outside  New  Hampshire 

7 

106 

96 

202 

14 


NEW    HAMPSHIRE    SANATOEIUM. 


TABLE  X. 

Nativity  of  Patients  Dischaeged. 


Men. 

Women. 

Total. 

United  States 

79 
11 
2 
5 
0 
2 
2 
1 
2 
1 
1 

54 

22 

3 

9 

I 

1 
1 
0 
1 
0 

133 

Canada    

England     

Ireland    

Scotland    

33 
5 

14 
3 

Sweden 

4 

Russia    

Austria    

Greece    

Syria    

3 
2 
2 
2 

Italy  

1 

106 

96 

202 

TABLE  XI. 
Place  of  Examination  of  Applicants. 


Men. 

Women. 

Total. 

Berlin     

7 
3       * 

7 
5 

14 

Clareinont     

8 

Dover   

16 

18 

34 

Glencliff 

47 

39 

86 

Keene  

11 

8 

19 

Laconia   

1 

2 

3 

Manchester 

100 

69 

169 

. 

185 

U8 

333 

TABLE  XII. 

Sputum  Record  of  Patients  Discharged. 


Positive. 

Negative. 

Total. 

Incipient    

Moderately  advanced    

Far  advanced    

4 
63 
70 

37 

25 

3 

41 
88 
73 

137 

65 

202 

NEW   HAMPSHIRE   SANATORIUM. 


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TABLE  XIII. 
Frequency  op  Complications  Recorded. 


Abscess,  ischiorectal 3 

Adenitis  (scrofula)  5 

Asthma    3 

Cavity    40 

Cystitis  1 

Enteritis,    tubercular 8 

Epididymitis,  tubercular   ....  1 

Haemoptyses 127 

Heart,  displacement  1 

Heart,  intermittent  1 


InsuflSciency,  mitral  1 

Lupus  of  mouth 1 

Laryngitis,    tubercular 18 

Laryngitis,  catarrhal  2 

Otitis  media 7 

Orchitis,  tubercular 1 

Peritonitis,  tubercular.. 1 

Pleurisy  with  effusion 2 

Erythema  vesiculosum 1 


TABLE  XIV. 
Previous  Occupations  of  Those  Discharged. 


Agent  

Baker  

2 
1 
1 

Factory,  Machinist    

Metal   worker..  .. 

Paper  

Housework    

Housewife    

Laborer  

Merchant   

4 
3 

2 

Bookkeeper  

Bricklayer  

Bootblack 

Carpenter  

4 
1 
1 
7 
1 
1 
1 
9 
3 
1 
1 
•.       3 
6 
1 
1 
.        28 
.        26 
1 

16 

33 

5 

1 

Cigarmaker  

Clerk    postoflBce      

Motorman    

Milliner      

2 
1 

R.  R.  mail 

1 

Store   

Printer  .- 

1 

Conductor,  Street  R.  R 

Nurs«  

4 
1 

Dressmaker    

Stonecutter  

Student   

3 

Engineer,  stationary 

16 

Parmer    

Stenographer     . . . . 

2 

2 

Dye  

Textile 

Telegrapher    

Teacher  

Teamster 

1 
3 

Shoe 

1 

Foreman    

Total  

,.      202 

TABLE  XV. 

Deaths  in  Sanatorium. 

Duration  of  Disease  on  Admission,  Length  of  Residence,  and  Cause  of  Death. 


Case 

No. 


194 


274 
306 
321 
364 
406 
441 
446 


Duration 


Residence. 


45  months 
5  months 

11  months 

12  months 
12  months 
12  months 
18  months 
14  months 
10  mouiths 
12  months 
10  months 
14  months 


99  weeks,  1  day. 
166  weeks,  2  days 
37  weeks,  2  days 
48  weeks,  6  days 
22  weeks,  6  days 
4  weeks,  1  day. 
4  weeks,  1  day. 
3  weeks,  2  days 
22  weeks,  1  day. 
22  weeks,  3  days 

2  weeks     

7  weeks     


Cause  of  Death. 


Pulmonary   Tuberculosis. 
Pulm.  Tuberc.  and  Pulm.  Haem. 
Pulm.  and  Laryng.  Tuberculosis. 
Pulmonary   Tuberculosis. 
Pulm.  Tuberc.  and  Pulm.  Haem. 
Pulmonary  Tuberculosis. 
Pulmonary   Tuberculosis. 
Pulmonary   Tuberculosis. 
Pulm.  Tuberc.  and  Pulm.  Haem. 
Pulm.  Tuberc.  and  Pulm.  Oedema. 
Pulmonary   Tuberculosis. 
Pulm.  ?p6  Laryne.  Tuberculosis. 


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NEW   HAMPSHIRE   SANATORIUM. 


TABLE  XVI. 
Present  Condition  of  Patients  Discharged. 
Classified  According  lo  Condition  on  Admission  and  Discharge. 


Present  Condition. 

Discharged. 

1909. 

Stage. 

Discharged. 

1910. 

Stage. 

1 

2 

3 

Total. 

1 

2 

3 

Total. 

Alive    

0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 

1 
1 
0 

1 

0 

2 

0 
1 
0 
0 
0 

1 

1 
2 
0 
1 
0 
3 

11 
1 

0 

I 

12 

19 
11 

4 
14 

5 
34 

0 
11 
0 
0 
0 
11 

30 

Dead               

'23 

4 

"Working     

23 

Not  working   

7 

57 

Present  Condition. 


Discharged. 

1911. 

Stage. 


Discharged. 

1912. 

Stage. 


Alive    

Dead    

Un  traced  . . . 
Working  ... 
Not  working 


1 

2 

3 

8 

28 

4 

0 

10 

19 

3 

2 

2 

S 

26 

0 

0 

2 

4 

11 

40 

25 

Total. 


40 


76 


1 

2 

3 

19 

35 

4 

1 

6 

20 

2 

0 

1 

17 

26 

1 

2 

9 

3  ! 

22 

41 

25    ' 

Present  Condition. 

Discharged. 

1913. 

Stage. 

Discharged. 
Totals. 
Stage. 

1 

2      1      3 

Total. 

1 

2    1       3      Total. 

Alive    

19 
0 
1 

19 
0 

20 

37 
5 
1 
20 
17 
43 

14 

21 

0 

70 
26 

9 

57 
2 
6 

53 

120  i       22         199 

Dead     

33         72  1       107 

Untraced    

7 1         3  '        18 

Working    

4         43 

10           27 

87  i         K  1       146 

4    '         Sa          17            K4 

35 

98 

65 

160         97         322 

NEW   HAMPSHIRE   SANATORIUM.  17' 


SCHEMA     FOE     CLASSIFICATION     OF     PATIENTS     ON 
EXAMINATION. 

The  following  definitions  indicate  the  furthest  extent  of 
disease  and  the  greatest  severity  of  symptoms  that  a  patient  can 
present  and  still  belong  to  the  stage  defined.  All  patients  be- 
yond the  incipient  stage  fall  under  the  moderately  advanced 
stage  unless  the  physical  signs  and  the  symptoms  exceed  those 
of  the  moderately  advanced  stage,  when  they  should  be  classi- 
fied as  far  advanced. 

Incipient. — Slight  or  no  constitutional  symptoms  (including  par- 
ticularly gastric  or  intestinal  disturbances,  or  rapid  loss  of 
weight)  ;  slight  or  no  elevation  of  temperature  or  accelera- 
tion of  pulse  at  any  time  during  the  twenty-four  hours. 

Expectoration   usually    small    in    amount   or   absent.     Tu- 
bercle bacilli  may  be  present  or  absent. 

Slight  infiltration  limited  to  the  apex  of  one  or  both  lungs, 
or  a  small  part  of  one  lobe. 
No  tuberculous  complications. 
Moderately    Advanced. — No    marked    impairment    of    function, 
either  local  or  constitutional. 

Marked  infiltration  more  extensive  than  under  incipient, 
with  little  or  no  evidence  of  cavity  formation. 
No  serious  tuberculous  complications. 
Far  Advanced. — Marked  impairment  of  function,  local  and  con- 
stitutional. 

Extensive  localized  infiltration  or  consolidation  in  one  or 
more  lobes. 

Or  disseminated  areas  of  cavity  formation. 
Or  serious  tuberculous  complications. 
Acute  Miliary  Tuberculosis. 


SCHEMA  FOE  CLASSIFICATION  OF  SUBSEQUENT  OBSEEVA- 

TIONS. 

Apparently  Cured, — All  constitutional  symptoms  and  expectora- 
tion with  bacilli  absent  for  a  period  of  two  years  under 
ordinary  conditions  of  life. 

Arrested. — All  constitutional  symptoms  and  expectoration  with 
bacilli  absent  for  a  period  of  six  months ;  the  physical  signs 
to  be  those  of  a  healed  lesion. 

Apparently  Arrested. — All  constitutional  symptoms  and  expec- 
toration with  bacilli  absent  for  a  period  of  three  months ; 
the  physical  signs  to  be  those  of  a  healed  lesion. 

Quiescent. — Absence  of  all  constitutional  symptoms ;  expectora- 
tion and  bacilli  may  or  may  not  be  present ;  physical .  signs 
stationary  or  retrogressive ;  the  foregoing  conditions  to  have 
existed  for  at  least  two  months. 

Improved. — Constitutional  symptoms  lessened  or  entirely  absent ; 
physical  signs  improved  or  unchanged ;  cough  or  expectora- 
tion with  bacilli  usually  present. 

Unimproved. — All  essential  symptoms  and  signs  unabated  or  in- 
creased. 

Died. 


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NEW    HAMPSHIRE   SANATORIUM. 
FINANCIAL  STATEMENT. 


Keceipts.  * 

1913. 

1914. 

Appropriations  for  maintenance 

Board   of  patients 

$26,515.40 

5,660.28 

245.54 

203.82 

505.12 

$30,000.00 

2,938.29 

231.04 

Sale  of  supplies 

Miscellaneous     

107.22 

Sale  of  farm  products 

533.07 

Total  expenditures    

$33,130.16 
33,128.63 

$33,809.62 
33,632.75 

Balance   unexpended    

$1.53 

$176.87 

ANALYSIS  OF  EXPENSES. 

1913. 

Salaries,  wages  and  labor: 
Pay-roll     $10,846.24 

Pood : 

Butter    11,289.88 

Beans     43.56 

Bread   and   crackers 82.13 

Cereals,  rice,  meal,  etc 111.73 

Cheese    27.73 

Eggs     2,646.29 

Flour    245.80 

Fish  408.90 

Fruit    (dried   and   fresh) 932.36 

Meats     4,053.86 

Milk    514.58 

Molasses  and  syrup 12.91 

Sugar   300.42 

Tea,  coffee,  broma  and  cocoa  290.44 

Vegetables    541.79 

Sundries     380.45 

11,883.84 

Furnishings : 

Beds,  bedding  table  linen,  etc.  $206.44 

Brushes,  brooms,  etc 30.35 

Carpets,    rugs,    etc 11.75 

Crockery,  glassware,  etc 194.76 

Furniture   and   upholstery 73.96 

Kitchen  furnishings   115.94 

Wooden  ware,   buckets,  pails,  '            2.23 

Sundries   

635.43 


1914. 


$1,434.27 

59.53 

95.51 

112.30 

68.21 

2,988.83 

273.76 

264.38 

565.05 

4,050.04 

978.75 

351.50 
327.47 
653.29 
284.88 


23.53 

125.49 
47.89 
81.85 
10.38 
18.17 


$11,705.73 


12,497.77 


597.29 


NEW   HAMPSHIRE   SANATORIUM.  l9 


Heat,  Light  and  power: 

Coal    *....  $1,888.81  |2,867.18 

Wood    256.10  179.40 

on    24.34  65.16 

Sundries     171.25  236.77 

2,340.50         3,348.51 

Repairs  and  improvements: 

,   Cement,    lime   and   plaster $15.25  

Doors,  sashes,  etc 4.00  

Electrical  work  and  supplies..  86.98  $11.76 

Hardware    29.24  26.35 

Lumber   124.05  

Machinery   4.36  

Paints,   oil,   glass,   etc 25.59  50,71 

Plumbing,    steam    fitting    and 

supplies    •  49.54  44.62 

Sundries  310.93  20.73 

649.94  154.17 

Farm,  stable  and  grounds: 

Blackmith    and    supplies $143.93  $64.13 

Carriages,    wagons,    etc.,    and 

repairs     2.46  235.40 

Fertilizers,   vines,    seeds,    etc.  231.54  167.00 

Hay,  grain,  etc 1,499.12  1,206.65 

Harnesses  and  repairs 90.56  37.45 

Horses   450.00  221.00 

Cattle   170.00              '  

Other  live  stock 28.50  239.16 

Labor    (not   on   pay-roll) 890.49  37.50 

Rent    300.00  487.19 

Tools,  farm  machines,  etc 62.55  40.02 

Sundries     84.93  37.50* 

3,954.08  2,771.20 

Miscellaneous : 

Labor  (not  on  payroll) $246.84 

Books,    periodicals,    etc $12.66 

•    Freight,  expressage  and  trans- 
portation      558.90  497.85 

Medicines    and    hospital    sup- 
plies      694.67  306.67 

Medical     attendance,     nurses, 

etc.    (extra)    118.00  179.00 

Postage   96.44  39.39 

Printing  and  printing  supplies  194.88  64.09 

Soap  and  laundry  supplies 322.57  251.13 

Stationery  and  office  supplies  39.10  41.55 

Travel  and  expenses  (officials)  361.56  182.23 

Telephone  and  telegraph 93.10  86.55 

Sundries   326.72  662.78 

2,818.60         2,558.08 

Total  expense  $33,128.63  $33,632.75 


20  NEW   HAMPSHIRE   SANATOEIUM. 

WEEKLY  PER  CAPITA  COST. 

Payroll  

Pood    

Furnishings    

Heat,  light  and  power 

Repairs  and  improvements 

Farm,  stable  and  grounds 

Miscellaneous    

Total  expense  

Supplies  sold  at  cost  and  bought  from  maintenance  and 
Road  Fund   

Net   per   capita  per   week 111.337  |11.80 


3.76 

$4,161 

4.123 

4.443 

.221 

.213 

.813 

1.19 

.226 

.055 

1.372 

.985 

.978 

.909 

$11,493 

$11,956 

.156 

.156 

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